![]() ![]() ![]() I have no mental 'hooks' to hang any of this information on anyway, so it was clearly in one ear, out the other. I found myself tuning out - way way way too much technical information. So this book starts out like that - and steams ahead quite nicely for about 2/3 of the book, at which point Alex Delaware finds himself immersed in way too much chemistry - actual chemistry, as in the chemical components of various hallucinogens and other mind-altering drugs. It's heady stuff, and endlessly fascinating. In doing so, Kellerman gives us all access to part of LA we'd never see, and insights into the kind of people most of us would never run into normally. So he, or they, go around the LA area and interview all kinds of strange and weird people, some of them high-level wealthy movers and shakers, all the way down to the lowest of the low quasi-homeless. Then he - or he and his trusty (and very likable) sidekick, Milo - try to figure out what happened. It's taken me decades to figure this out, but there's a very simple pattern to these books: Some event/crime occurs, and Alex gets called into the middle of it. That said, this one was a disappointment. Let's start with the fact that most of Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware books are better than most other books. ![]()
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