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Matthew Riordan #1
The Joshua Sequence
When Stephen Turner is murdered, his sister, Kate, convinces Matt Riordan, a Seattle lawyer, to investigate
- GenresMystery
215 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published September 12, 1986
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June 25, 2017
This a book that clearly shows the importance of a main character. This is Huebner's first novel and therefore attorney Matt Riordan is a new character introduced in its first pages. And I didn't like him. Now, he might just grow on you but in this introduction, I didn't like him.
He is straight away described as either a drunk or at least a hard-drinking man, who when he finishes a case (and he seems fairly successful although he has a crummy office), he decides to spend his afternoon getting really drunk. And its while he is slowly doing that that he witnesses a young man machine gunned in the middle of a busy San Francisco street.
So already, you have someone who is fairly young, supposedly smart wasting an afternoon guzzling alcohol and a machine gunning that has only one fatality???? I'm sorry, but I'm already skeptical.
Then somehow, after he is questioned by the cops, the dead man's sister asks him to look into the murder.
Who is Riordan (the supposedly successful, always flush with money but working out of a walk up in which he shares a secretary, has only one friend and knows a lot of unsavory characters) and who is Stephen Turner, an apparently mild mannered software executive who at least has a past (protest and revolutionary activities when a college student) that we can get to understand, unlike the lawyer.
When you get to the basic who done it, this is not a bad little book, but for me, the basic story, the number of characters I never develop a feel for or that I dislike and I'm just not the invested in the whole thing. I finished it because I wanted to give the author a chance ... and perhaps his character development is better in the later books.
But an interesting thing -- for an author of multiple books, Huber appears to be as secretive as his main character.
He is straight away described as either a drunk or at least a hard-drinking man, who when he finishes a case (and he seems fairly successful although he has a crummy office), he decides to spend his afternoon getting really drunk. And its while he is slowly doing that that he witnesses a young man machine gunned in the middle of a busy San Francisco street.
So already, you have someone who is fairly young, supposedly smart wasting an afternoon guzzling alcohol and a machine gunning that has only one fatality???? I'm sorry, but I'm already skeptical.
Then somehow, after he is questioned by the cops, the dead man's sister asks him to look into the murder.
Who is Riordan (the supposedly successful, always flush with money but working out of a walk up in which he shares a secretary, has only one friend and knows a lot of unsavory characters) and who is Stephen Turner, an apparently mild mannered software executive who at least has a past (protest and revolutionary activities when a college student) that we can get to understand, unlike the lawyer.
When you get to the basic who done it, this is not a bad little book, but for me, the basic story, the number of characters I never develop a feel for or that I dislike and I'm just not the invested in the whole thing. I finished it because I wanted to give the author a chance ... and perhaps his character development is better in the later books.
But an interesting thing -- for an author of multiple books, Huber appears to be as secretive as his main character.
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