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Just buy it. Private eye. Yellowstone what else could you want?

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3 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-08-22

If you like Box, Atkins, Cameron but want something a bit more sophisticated like Mcguane, or Olmsted you’ll love Heller. The narrator was a bit gushy at the first yet calmed as the story developed. Def prefer Hellers other narrators.

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Sub genre: The Wilderness Crime Thriller

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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-24-22

I have a difficult time finding good suspense novels set in the outdoors. I generally get tipped to the standard serial novelists that run that wheelhouse. However, they never seem to hit the higher shelf literature chops that McCarthy, Olmstead and a Thomas Mcguane do. McLaughlin has with this first novel of his. I eagerly look forward his second.

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You might judge it by its cover.

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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-16-22

Gosh, I really wanted to enjoy this book, which I did at some level. . I’ve read most Hellers published works. Unfortunately, the preoccupation with a K9 made it difficult to stomach.. Waxing poetic about it, thousands of words, Just torture; Slogging through it. Not everyone anthropomorphizes animals. However, I couldn’t stop listening. It was a good book despite the dog fetish .

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A decent sequel.

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-14-22

Despite “only Killers and Thieves”, having a far greater impact upon reading, this sequel as it is, does piggy back well onto It, In fact I would have rather it ended there with the first novel. I believe the character of inspector Noon being one amongst few of the great antagonist in lit. I did notice however the narrator wasn’t able to give Noon the sophisticated English/ Australian accent he was aiming, but rather someone more foreign. Do read
-Only Killers and Thieves.

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Propaganda

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1 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-16-21

A lot of truth in the book, yet it’s disparaged and pushed to the point of unrealistic and insane so you’re forced to empathize with the alternative. A lot of a anti white man/pro Zionist, globalist perspective. With a terribly dull story. Despite the great setting.

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Worth the listen.

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3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-08-21

A pretty good book. Reminiscent of Steinbeck. The narration is also well done. However, no one character really gains your loyalty. Interestingly enough.

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Wrong narrator.

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2 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-05-21

As the novel is told in the first person. That of our English gentleman protagonist of that century.
The choice to have a female narrator is baffling. Again and again as one listens, Which is not reading a book, one has to be constantly remind oneself that it’s a man that we’re listening to, rather than the ardently lovely and feminine voice of the narrator.
Could work on a different writing method, but of the first person. No

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Wanted to enjoy it..

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1 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 05-05-21

As it’s kinda up my ally. However,
Either the author or editor/publisher are the PC police, or...just bad judgment of the author.
The obvious feminism, fetishizing of demonic pre civilization practices(google maori war face)
And the constant anthropomorphizing of dogs ad nauseam was irrelevant and distracting to the story that could have earned some interest from the target audience. Also the plot included a side story that should have been entirely cut. But the cancel culture of today just can’t do without some rape and white man hating. Unfortunate.

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Cluttered with filler. Not sharp or deft prose. But still..decent.

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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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2 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-30-21

The story had its moments for sure.
And a couple characters.
However, it dragged a bit and had segments with no bearing whatsoever.
Worst of all was the woman narrator. She spoke as if she had dropped molly before hand, gushing in a way that was half sobbing with giant tears of cheese, half hysterical laughter near to eruption. Thank goodness for the male narrator, otherwise it would have been dropped in two chapters.

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They don’t write them like this anymore..

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 04-26-21

Fantastic. Gothic by definition, performed near perfect. I would say apart from a personal read, that this is the best way to know the work, especially if you’ve never seen any film portrayal.

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