Metzger's Dog: A Novel
by Thomas Perry
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Author: Thomas PerryIntroduction: Carl Hiaasen
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-06-10
ISBN: 0812967747
Number of pages: 314
Publisher: Random House
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Book Review: "How does that cat get in and out of here like that?" -- "I don't know." -- "Maybe the dog has a key."
Summary: 5 Stars
This was Perry's second novel, and I was prepared to be somewhat disappointed; sophomore novels are seldom as good as first novels, especially the first novel was an award-winner. But not this time; it's a hoot and a half. It's a caper yarn rather than a mystery and there's a strong thread of Westlakian bizarre humor woven throughout. Chinese Gordon, ex-military and a master tool and die maker in Los Angeles, organizes a raid on a university drug study and manages opportunistically to grab an extremely secret CIA report as well from another office. The report outlines the Company's contingency plans for taking over various cities in times of crisis from natural disaster -- or by creating its own crises where necessary. Gordon and his two associates (plus his girlfriend, who has most of the brains of the group) note that considerable detail is provided in the case of Mexico City. And they are aware that the Mexican government would not be happy with the American government were such a document to be published. Sounds like a good way to blackmail the CIA, right? The point of view shifts frequently from L.A. to Langley, where several old hands and a couple of high-ranking bozos manage to misinterpret almost everything. Must be a Latin American terrorist group. Or maybe the Russians. The section where Gordon's gang demonstrates its capabilities by immobilizing all of Los Angeles for a day is highly cinematic and I'm amazed this has never been made into a film. Oh, yeah: The title. Chinese Gordon has a subversive cat named Dr. Henry Metzger, and the dog -- a two-hundred-pound junkyard mastiff -- belongs to him. To the cat, that is, not to Chinese Gordon. Yeah, it's that kind of story.
Summary of Metzger's Dog: A Novel
The much-loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar Award?winning The Butcher?s Boy is now, by popular demand, back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.When Leroy ?Chinese? Gordon breaks into a professor?s lab at the University of Los Angeles, he?s after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a suitable ransom, unless of course someone actually uses the plan to throw a large city into chaos?Los Angeles, for instance? Assigned to cope with the crisis and restore the peace, veteran agent Ben Porterfield steps onto the scene to remind us that the CIA?s middle name is, after all, Intelligence. Enlivening the mix are Gordon?s beautiful girlfriend, Margaret, his temperamental cat, Dr. Henry Metzger, and Metzger?s friend, an enormous half-wild dog with huge teeth.
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