Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The Two Week Old Novel "First Fix Your Alibi" Is Unfixable


Bill James latest book, "First Fix Your Alibi" is a labyrinth of lameness which takes its readers on an abysmal journey to drossy town.
James managed to make having sex with a 19-year-old college woman boring. The love life of Denise, the college lady and one of the main policemen, Harpur was as interesting as watching the 10-72 Philadelphia 76ers pregame show. Each and every character was more drab then the next and the story-line was as intriguing as shopping for toilet tissue.  
The one good thing about this novel was that it was less than a 190 pages, granted a 188 pages too much, but it was a fast read. “First Fix Your Alibi” uses the basic plot of the 1951 Alfred Hitchcock movie, “Strangers On a Train,” which James makes clear.  
Drug lord, Mansel Shale sets out to avenge the shooting death of his wife Naomi and son Laurent. A possible police cover-up to the murders may be one reason the killers have never been found, and when all is said and done the final outcome of the story is a deleterious display of dismay.

I give this new novel one and a half stars as opposed to minus five stars simple because I learned a new word, the above; deleterious which is an adjective meaning harmful to body and mind. I also gave it an extra half star because some of the stuff I couldn’t understand was not the authors fault because “First Fix Your Alibi” is a follow-up to a crime series of books featuring the detectives Desmond Iles and Harpur.  

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