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Loading... Memory Of Darkness (2009)by P. A. Brown
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The story opens with a 42 year old man picking up a young prostitute at a gay pride parade. Once at the hotel, in the middle of sex, someone busts in and murders the young guy. It’s not a good sign when the main character is “framed” for a crime, and you couldn’t care less. John Wager is not a likeable guy. It doesn’t help that the first few chapters are spent learning just how pitiful and unsympathetic he is, and all from his point of view since the story is told in first person. I found myself plodding through the story – I just could not connect with the characters. Unfortunately, without that connection – the mystery just wasn’t strong enough. I only made it through half the book before I have up and put it aside. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Johnny Wager has been a loser all his life and proud of it. But when a West Hollywood twink ends up dead in a hotel room with Wager literally holding the bag, he knows his life is going to change for the worse. Pursued by the West Hollywood sheriffs for a murder he knows he didn't commit, Wager has to stay one step ahead of them and prove his innocence. It doesn't help matters any that his own son, Mark Wager, is a deputy sheriff who has joined the manhunt and has more reason than anyone to find the father who failed him all his life and bring him to justice.Add Hyacinth, a six-foot-five drag queen from New Orleans, Taz, her Puerto Rican boyfriend, an ex-Marine porno filmmaker and his incontinent Basset Hound Columbo, and the Armenian mob chasing them all through the streets of Los Angeles and the art walks and canals of Venice Beach. Wager pursues his own answers to the question of who is trying to kill him in the sleazy bars and back alleys of Hollywood all the way to Cathedral City.Can Wager stop the killers and reconcile with his son or will he end up being the next victim? Betrayed by friends, beset by his own conscience that has come back late in life with a vengeance, and the need to redeem himself, he battles the ruthless mob in the only way he knows how: with cunning and a total disrespect for the law. No library descriptions found. |
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