Fast Lane
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Willy Hanson is a gentleman detective, an amateur Sam Spade who would love to solve a little riddle like the Maltese Falcon, but winds up doing matrimonial work. When Amanda Granger, the pregnant wife of a philandering executive, asks Willy to get the dirt on her husband so that she can start a new life, he reluctantly takes the case. But soon Willy finds that the man has been doing more than leading a double life. With a sultry mistress by his side, Jason Granger seems poised to rocket his way to the top, not caring who he destroys along the way. But a chance encounter with an enraged motorist has started a chain of events that he may not be able to stop.
Because his roadside opponent is a sociopath of sickening proportions. And unless Willy puts all the pieces of the puzzle together in time, people will die.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Though there are quirks aplenty, Arnote's sixth Willy Hanson escapade is a mechanical exercise that just goes to prove that all the clever plotting in the world doesn't necessarily make characters come to life. The thoroughly unadmirable Jason Granger has a road rage run-in with the equally unadmirable Sonny Houston, who trails Jason to a rest area and beats him up in the men's room. Sonny also likes to beat up on his son Tad, and when the boy goes missing after a ride through some Jersey rapids, he ends up in New York City in the care of a hooker who calls herself Empress Carlotta. Everything comes to a head when Jason's wife, Amanda, hires Willy Hanson and his partner, Coley Doctor, to get the goods on her husband, who's having a torrid affair with the--yes--unadmirable Blair Lawton. The various plot strands converge in predictable fashion: Arnote knows all the right moves, but they're jerky and mechanical. It seems as if he picked up the latest Carl Hiaasen and said to himself, "I can do that." Judging by this effort, he can't.
