I Don't Like Where This Is Going A Wylie Coyote Novel [Paperback]

I can promise that you wont read another novel this year (or any year) that includes a rocket launcher attack on a brothel and a parade of somber Kafkas lining a Vegas strip. Really, you dont want to miss this one.The mystery hooks you, and the dialogue, quick and jazzy and funny as Elmore Leonard, keeps the line taut. John Dufresne is one of Americas finest writers, and there doesnt seem to be anything he cant do.This crime-noir book is like nothing youve ever readan existential mystery story about exploitation and indifference, about illusion and hope.Wylie Melvilles odyssey through Las Vegas is a funny, quirky trip that will keep you reading. The title says it all.What has happened in Vegas has not stayed in Vegas at all, but has instead wound up in John Dufresnes brilliant new send-up of the crime thriller,Happiness is a new Wylie Coyote novel! I laughed and shuddered in equal measure, but I also drooled as Wylie eats his way through the story. Fitting then to quote Anthony Bourdain, who said of Vegas: See the full spectrum of human folly and commit some follies of your own. The same is true of this delightful novel.Nothing is more fun than reading a John Dufresne novel, and I couldnt be more pleased that hes turned his brilliant mind to crime. This book deserves its comparisons to Chandler and MacDonald, but it finds a lot more gallows humor in Wylie Coyotes violent, darkly fascinating world. Highly entertaining. You wont put it down till youre done, and then youll want more.If Raymond Chandler were reincarnated as a novelist in south Florida, he couldnt nail it any better than John Dufresne.Carl Hiaasen