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(More customer reviews)I've never read any of Anne Rice's books. I didn't even know Christopher Rice was her son until my wife told me, after I'd started the book. I would guess she's a good writer though, because her son's pretty polished, and this offering is very good, to say the least.
Our hero, the main character, is John Houck, a Marine just back from Iraq and out of the Corps after a decade, wracked by guilt over a misstep that cost one of his comrades an eye, and almost cost the guy his life. Houck decides to look him up and apologize, and instead walks in on the aftermath of his murder. He pursues someone who's running away, but that individual turns out to be the dead guy's gay lover, and of course this causes Houck to undergo all sorts of soul-searching, because he never realized his friend was gay.
This is a reasonably good mystery, and a very interesting suspense novel. Once you get past the whodunit aspect of things (which is revealed rather quickly) the book has more to do with the acceptance of gays in modern society, and how they interact with the rest of us. That's interesting, and it's well-done.
I enjoyed this book a great deal, and would recommend it to anyone.
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