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While still wracked with guilt over the supposed suicide of his only son, Taylor, wealthy Sacramento Delta developer Nathan Greene meets Dane Rudd, a young man who'd lost his vision in a subway attack years ago and only regained it through the posthumous transplanting of Taylor's corneas. Nathan is now putting together a research center in his son's name, and he needs Rudd as his guileless pitchman, "the miracle of modern science he'll troop out to fund-raisers." But the enigmatic Rudd has his own agenda, which could lay Nathan--as well as an avaricious banker; a randy, paraplegic district attorney with political ambitions; and a pair of brutish sibling pilots--open to charges in a conspiracy that involves money laundering, missing diamonds, and murder.
Although the pseudonymous Teran gets off a clever line here and there (he describes a comely woman as having "legs that went all the way from the ground up and into a man's psyche"), the prose in The Prince of Deadly Weapons is a flabby version of what drew readers to his previous works, God Is a Bullet and Never Count Out the Dead. Equally discouraging, this story's characters never rise above the one-dimensionality of concept, and its plot twists are less accomplished than they are confounding. Despite some fast-pitch episodes of cinematic drama (Rudd's last-minute escape from an onrushing train, exploding boats in the denouement), The Prince of Deadly Weapons lacks the lethal edge that fans have come to expect from this author. --J. Kingston Pierce
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In Rio Vista, California, Taylor Greene, the perfect son and heir to a fortune, dies in what is called a suicide. But two hundred miles away in an anonymous motel room, a federal agent waiting to meet Taylor has been murdered. Months later, Dane Rudd enters Rio Vista for a memorial to this young man whom he had never even met. Dane owes his life to Taylor Greene, for he was almost blinded in an accident and it is because of the donation of Taylor's corneas that he is able to see again. Soon Dane begins a journey along a pathway lined with liars, thieves, murderers and innocents - a fool's errand, and a dangerous hunt for truth. 'Not for those of a nervous disposition' Daily Telegraph, (for God Is a Bullet) 'Grim, glorious Gothic' Val McDermid, (for Never Count Out the Dead). The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR003967312
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