Joy wrote:
"I'm not familiar with Gypsy Hearts and will look it
up."
It's about a likeable enough, non-violent con man claiming to
be a Hollywood producer -- he's in Prague trying to raise
money for his next film. Of course, there is no film. He gets
taken by a pretty stereotypical femme fatale, then tracks her
down, conning her way across Europe with (is he really?) her
brother. I found his obsession uncovincing (unlike the one
in, say, Will Christopher Baer's Kiss Me Judas -- even if
that book relied on the hoary "wakes up in an ice-filled tub
without his kidney" urban legend) and the plot terribly
predictable. The jacket copy calls it a comic thriller, but I
don't remember much humor beyond some of the narrator's
smartass comments. I figured it was just a comment to appeal
to fans of Shooting Elvis.
The writing on Prague, though, is very good. Again according
to the jacket copy, Eversz moved there in 1992. Does he still
live there? Is his writing on LA in the Nina Zero books just
from memory? Those book have a great sense of place,
too.
Mark
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