Flame

by John Lutz

Book Overview

When a client dies in a car explosion, Orlando detective Fred Carver learns the man may not have been who he said he wasFor Bert Renway, it starts out as a simple proposition: a fat bundle of money to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080500968X
• ISBN13: 9780805009682
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An engaging private eye novel

I don't know if you could really call this a mystery -- more of a thriller. The plot involves an ex-cop-with-a-limp private detective who is hired by an older man to find out why this man has been hired to impersonate someone else. Very quickly, our private detective finds himself under pressure from a lot of different directions, including criminals, government agents, and crooked cops. Although any sane person would have walked away from the situation early on, our detective (for reasons he claims are ethical concerns) continues to investigate, despite the threats to him and his girlfriend. He says it's for ethical reasons, but I personally think getting your girlfriend massacred is hardly ethical. But Lutz is a good story teller and writes well, so you keep turning the pages. I think this is really more of a guy's thriller, and I prefer mysteries to thrillers, so I can only give this four stars.