RARA-AVIS: The Lost Coast

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Subject: RARA-AVIS: The Lost Coast
From: jkimura@nsknet.or.jp (Jiro Kimura)
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 21:44:30 +0900
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Yes, I read THE LOST COAST, by Roger L. Simon (HarperCollins, 1997),
because I have been  commissioned to translate it into Japanese as I did
the other books of his Moses Wine series.  As a matter of fact, I read an
advanced reading copy of the book last December.  Only the ARC lacked the
last 20 pages.  I finally got a real McCoy and read the last 20 pages a few
days ago.

If you like this series, you like the latest.  If not, well, you better
read other stuff.  If you have not read any books of this series, well, it
is hard to explain.  Let me try.  

Moses Wine now has his own private invetigation company with some
operatives.  One of his son Simon is a member of some eco-terrorist group
and is accused of murdering a lumber worker in the Lost Coast area (the
upstate California).  So Moses has to find Simon before the FBI kills
Simon.  Moses' ex-wife Suzanne, now a lawyer in the mid-West, lends a hand
and argues with Moses about their divorce.  There is a bad FBI agent and a
good FBI agent.  So, it is the 60's again, eh?  Wrong.  It is the 90's with
the 60's sentiment.  

By the way, Roger doesn't consider his fiction hardboiled.  Roger is just
back from Prague where he was directing a film, and now is editing the
film.

Jiro Kimura
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e-mail:  jkimura@nsknet.or.jp
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