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The Prince of Deadly Weapons Book
Taking his title from author Owen Wister's description of the eye of man as "the prince of deadly weapons," Boston Teran spins out a forceful yet surprisingly unsatisfying yarn in which what you see is almost never what you get. 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 Read More
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Product Description
Set in the California Delta, an 11,000-mile maze of waterways and riverside towns, this thriller begins when Taylor Greene, the perfect son and heir to a fortune, dies in what is called a suicide, and 200 miles away in a motel room a federal agent waiting to meet Taylor has been murdered.
- 0333904737
- 9780333904732
- Boston Teran
- 21 May 2004
- Macmillan
- Hardcover (Book)
- 384
- First Edition
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