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Disco Death Beat

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Jerry Bosen had two reasons for sending Lieutenant Bud Dugan the gold embossed invitation to his club "Arrow", the hottest disco on the east coast. The first was to catch up on the years since he and Dugan had been pals. The second was to catch the creep who was tailing his girl. "Arrow" had made Jerry a near fortune, and he had since plunged into the talent end of the business, landing a huge recording contract for his protege and girlfriend, Margot Barrie. And now, Margot was living in terror. Bud Dugan agreed to do what he could to shake the guy off Margot, but Margot had vanished. Bud soon found himself swinging in the pulsating neon frenzy to the disco world, electrified with murder!

201 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1980

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February 3, 2013
I started reading this because the book I was reading at work, Ethan Frome, wasn't action-packed enough to keep me awake while standing in place for several hours.

Disco Death Beat is certainly more action-packed than the first 15 pages of Ethan Frome, but it's a horrible, horrible book. Even though it's called "Disco Death Beat," it seems like the author's never been in a disco in his life, let alone read a book or put sentences together. Events happen but never reach the remotest distance of suspense or intrigue; the characters would never be interesting even if they existed for a hundred more pages. There are plenty "twists" in the plot but they are all random, like the author got bored with them and wanted to start the story new ever other chapter. The main character, Dugan (how are there two other books in this series???) hardly does anything, be it detective work or punching a guy's face in. He has small talk with people and solves things magically.

There's not even any good ham-fisted sleaziness to any of it. It's not even a bad Kojak episode. It's just a lazy, shitty book with a cool cover that killed a couple hours at work.

Here's a goof:
Sal stepped over to the cab of the truck before the two blacks could get out.
"That's a delivery for Arrows, right?"
The black nearest Bosen looked at him suspiciously. "Who wants to know?" he asked.
Arcadie smiled and reached into his pocket. He pulled out a fifty dollar bill, "Mr. Benjamin Franklin, that's who."

(Actually that's two goofs: Bosen's a character not in this scene and Mr. Benjamin Franklin is not on the fifty dollar bill.)
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