Bad Guys
by Linwood Barclay
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Author: Linwood BarclayEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05
ISBN: 0553587056
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Great to Read More of Zack Walker but This isn't Quite in the League as the Original Adventure Bad Move
Summary: 4 Stars
Bad Guys is still a very good and definitely fun read. It just isn't quite up to the absolute masterpiece standard that Bad Move was. Although still eccentric and very much still a severe paranoid cotton wool parent, Zack Walker seems to have learnt from his previous family teachings back firing in Bad Move and doesn't do them here. Instead he takes up actions such as stalking his daughter that no one else will know about. Why? Because his daughter Angie is receiving a lot of unwanted phone calls and other attention from a boy who doesn't seem to take the hint. Zack is also now employed at his wife's newspaper, in fact she's his boss and it is while he is on a ride along stakeout of ram raiders targeting expensive clothing stores he forms a friendship with PI Lawrence Jones. Jones and Zack catch Angie's stalker hanging around his garage which is what stimulates Zack's own stalking behaviour. Zack also just bought a car from a proceeds of crime auction which seems to be a bit of a lemon. Throw in a Barbie doll collecting mafia man and you've got a pretty good read.
My criticisms of this novel though are that it is very predictable. For example as soon as we read scenes involving a juice bottle we know how that's go appear later on. Likewise a shortcut at Angie's university. Plus the stabber identity is very obvious.
Still it's a good read and Barclay has definitely proven he is a rival for the comic caper crown and can definitely give Donald E Westlake, Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry and others a run for their money. Also check out his brilliant stand alone storylines written in the style of Harlan Coben stand alone novels such as No Time for Goodbye and Too Close to Home.
Summary of Bad Guys
?Fans of the crime caper will rejoice? that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his ?riotously funny and irreverent? debut, in which paranoid pop Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city-savvy wife and two teenage kids to the tranquillity of the burbs?where planned communities prevail and fathers rest easy. Well, not quite?and now the Walkers have moved home only to find themselves living in the precarious crosshairs of urban sprawl once again, and Zack can?t help but be worried?really worried?that just around the corner lurks the presence of some really bad guys.Zack is back, and much to his family?s relief, the work-at-home science-fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a features writer for the city paper. But now that Zack?s incessant plotting can no longer be hatched from the comforts of his own home, he must be ever more vigilant to outwit the evil at large, whether in the suburbs, the city, or his own imagination. Zack is ready?or so he thinks.
While researching his first feature article, Zack stumbles upon a real-life crime scene, but what seems like an ordinary hit-and-run may actually be a homicide linked to a gang that?s been burglarizing Crandall?s high-end shops. Suddenly Zack finds himself at the center of a violent crime wave and destined for a confrontation with Barbie Bullock, an unsettling figure infamous in the crime syndicate for his ruthless business tactics and peculiar proclivity for collecting dolls.
And all is not quiet on the home front either. Zack?s protective instincts launch into overdrive when he discovers that his daughter?s rejected suitor has been tracing her every step and may harbor a much more ominous motivation than winning a Saturday night date. Nor does his son?s strange behavior and recent friendship with a creepy computer recluse inspire joy in a father?s heart.
As worlds begin to collide and boundaries between family and foe blur, Zack goes on the attack, and heaven help the bad guys when this resourceful father comes to make good on a deal gone bad.
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