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Metzger's Dog: A Novel
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| Part No: | 0812967747 |
| Manufacturer: | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.5 / 5.0 |
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The much-loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar Award–winning
The Butcher’s Boy is now, by popular demand, back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.
When Leroy “Chinese” Gordon breaks into a professor’s lab at the University of Los Angeles, he’s after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a suitable ransom, unless of course someone actually uses the plan to throw a large city into chaos—Los Angeles, for instance? Assigned to cope with the crisis and restore the peace, veteran agent Ben Porterfield steps onto the scene to remind us that the CIA’s middle name is, after all, Intelligence. Enlivening the mix are Gordon’s beautiful girlfriend, Margaret, his temperamental cat, Dr. Henry Metzger, and Metzger’s friend, an enormous half-wild dog with huge teeth.
| Metzger's Dog: A Novel..... Bow Wow! | 2009-05-20 | 3 / 5 |
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Metzger's Dog: A Novel
If your love reading novels, as I do....I wouldn't give this to a friend. Novels take TIME from your life. Make sure it's worth it. This book has an amusing concept and sales pitch but you can have mine for $0.00. |
| Mildly interesting, cartoonish rather than realistic | 2009-03-06 | 2 / 5 |
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| I don't have a lot of patience with slow starts. I got through page 84 of the book's 314 pages before deciding it just wasn't going to be worth my while. I understand it's intended to be funny, but I still expect life-like characters that I can recognize as real people in some sense. These characters just seemed too much like cartoon characters. And then the mythically-vicious 200-pound dog who can practically destroy a horse-trailer is introduced -- and he's instantly tamed by a cat who is reminiscent of the Siamese cats in the Disney movie Lady and the Tramp. That was the point where my credibility was stretched beyond its limits and I decided it was time to start a different book. |
| Entertaining caper, well written | 2009-02-13 | 4 / 5 |
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This "caper' novel from the early 1980s holds up very well. It's one of those books where the division is not between the good guys and the bad guys but between the smart guys and the dumb guys. It is joyfully ammoral and you feel perfectly free to root for the smart guys, even if they are thieves and killers.
A motely crowd of three Vietnam vets and one girlfriend hatch a plot to "liberate" a kilo of cocaine from a university lab. At the same time, one of them snatches a bunch of papers that turn out to be sensitive CIA-funded documents that reveal evil experiments in mind control in Latin America.
The [...] who run the CIA are convinced they're dealing with an urban terrorist group.
The plot gets a bit complicated at times with all the double and triple-crossing that goes on but is never less than entertaining. The characters of the main protagonists are sharp and likeable and the writing is breezy and alert.
The Metzger of the book's title is a sharply-drawn character that happens to be a cat. It befriends a massive, slobbering dog, also vividly drawn.
There's a sense of innocence about this pre-9/11 book regarding the ease with which the characters penetrate sensitive locations. For example, the protagonists are able to knock out the entire Los Angeles electricity system with indecent ease.
All in all, an entertaining read. |
| incredibly funny | 2009-01-27 | 5 / 5 |
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| This is really first rate. A treasure. This should be part of our national heritage and made available to all Americans. Its Perry's masterpiece, but its genius--combining madcap absurdity with some deadly serious (and credible intelligence snafus)--goes far beyond mere comparisons to his other works. Its just "A masterpiece" pure and simple. Highly recommended. |
| Just couldn't get into it | 2008-08-26 | 2 / 5 |
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I ordered this book in part because of all the positive reviews. I really wanted to enjoy the story, but I just could not get into the book. I'm not really sure why - I would be hard pressed to say anything negative about the book, it just was not for me. |
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