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The Sins of the Fathers by Lawrence Block
Reader Reviews Decidedly So-so, May 25, 2003 Reviewer: snalen from UK Zero stars first of all to Athena Gassoumis for the awful author's photograph: "Ok Larry, Now I want you to do a PENETRATING STARE." Oh please. The book is better but certainly not brilliant. Matthew Scudder is an ex cop dabbling in private detective work, a fairly nasty piece of work with an unattractive taste for brutality, bullying and vigilante DIY justice. The case he investigates is intriguing enough to keep a reader turning the pages though the denoument is of a somewhat disappointing banality and wins no prizes for credibility. The story is efficiently told but the only characters in which the author begins to succeed rendering very vivid or interesting are the two deceased.
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