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Wasted: Murder in the Recycle Berkeley Yard
In Wasted, a"green noir" mystery, Berkeley bookkeeper Brian Hunter reinvents himself as a reporter, investigates the "recycling wars," finds the body of his friend Doug crushed in an aluminum bale, and hunts down the murderer, all the while trying to win the heart of Barb, Doug's former lover, now a suspect in his murder.
324 pages, Paperback
First published April 25, 2024
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John Byrne Barry
5 books27 followersJohn Byrne Barry is a writer, designer, actor, bike tour leader, and crossing guard.
His first novel — Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher — set during the 2008 presidential campaign in New Mexico, won the 2015 Best Book Award from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA).
His first novel — Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher — set during the 2008 presidential campaign in New Mexico, won the 2015 Best Book Award from the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA).
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June 20, 2020
Recycle Berkeley, a “scrappy and idealistic recycling collective,” came out of Barry’s experiences at the Ecology Center. VERY Berkeley, Brian Hunter moves, sussing out a takeover attempt of both a City Council election and “Re-Be”s unbusinesslike, argumentative mix of GenXYZs and aging hippies by the evil corporate Consolidated Scavenger, its conflicted, needy hench-yuppies, “opportunistic” workers and outright thugs.
This “green noir” grew on me as I went along, all the “locals” here he so accurately portrays. Gino: “I was always fixing things, making things. There were ecology types running around then too, the old dumps were getting full, the new ones had all these complicated rules for leachate collection and I went to San José State to study landfill engineering. Got a job out at Solano Sanitary in Benicia, owned by another Italian family….In the valley, it was the Irish. It was an honest living. Before the suits showed up.”
He gives away several major plot twists on the cover for some reason, which makes empathizing and suspense hard at first, with hard-boiled first-person narration and heartless analysis to boot. The rather large cortège of characters popping up in the first 50 pages is confusing; but it gives Wasted a fast-paced, metro feeling with people appearing and disappearing like the snippets of the Chronicle and East Bay Beat used as chapter lead-ins. Here today, gone tomorrow. Delete, delete, delete. Move on…
Barry’s collective workers guilt themselves and others that “everybody has to contribute to every decision,” making efficiency and “expertise” “bourgeois.” We’re at once “ahead of the curve,” but “hoodlums are throwing rocks” at a peaceful “protest” the media calls “a riot” and radical protestors call “the revolution.” Wasted, ©2015. “You try and reach consensus with a bunch of purer-than-thou-radicals.”
Sound familiar? Like a shouting match I heard during a Food Cooperative meeting in Minneapolis in 1979 or so. Or UW-Madison at The Daily Cardinal in early spring 1969-70, after Kent State. The more things change, the more they stay the same?
Murder or other crime, economic pressure, clash of values, beliefs or sexual struggles can split a family, a business; it can make a community, nation or even the world seem like either/or, too divided, unable to be healed. I heard a “Zen proverb” the other day that helped me believe in bilateralism and unity, however: “The left foot may be on a different leg than the right foot, but only by using both the left and the right can we move forward and make progress in the world.”
This “green noir” grew on me as I went along, all the “locals” here he so accurately portrays. Gino: “I was always fixing things, making things. There were ecology types running around then too, the old dumps were getting full, the new ones had all these complicated rules for leachate collection and I went to San José State to study landfill engineering. Got a job out at Solano Sanitary in Benicia, owned by another Italian family….In the valley, it was the Irish. It was an honest living. Before the suits showed up.”
He gives away several major plot twists on the cover for some reason, which makes empathizing and suspense hard at first, with hard-boiled first-person narration and heartless analysis to boot. The rather large cortège of characters popping up in the first 50 pages is confusing; but it gives Wasted a fast-paced, metro feeling with people appearing and disappearing like the snippets of the Chronicle and East Bay Beat used as chapter lead-ins. Here today, gone tomorrow. Delete, delete, delete. Move on…
Barry’s collective workers guilt themselves and others that “everybody has to contribute to every decision,” making efficiency and “expertise” “bourgeois.” We’re at once “ahead of the curve,” but “hoodlums are throwing rocks” at a peaceful “protest” the media calls “a riot” and radical protestors call “the revolution.” Wasted, ©2015. “You try and reach consensus with a bunch of purer-than-thou-radicals.”
Sound familiar? Like a shouting match I heard during a Food Cooperative meeting in Minneapolis in 1979 or so. Or UW-Madison at The Daily Cardinal in early spring 1969-70, after Kent State. The more things change, the more they stay the same?
Murder or other crime, economic pressure, clash of values, beliefs or sexual struggles can split a family, a business; it can make a community, nation or even the world seem like either/or, too divided, unable to be healed. I heard a “Zen proverb” the other day that helped me believe in bilateralism and unity, however: “The left foot may be on a different leg than the right foot, but only by using both the left and the right can we move forward and make progress in the world.”
April 6, 2017
You might not think that the subject of solid waste management would lend itself to a murder mystery. It would seem to be a stretch, wouldn’t it? Although Wasted: Murder in the Recycle Berkeley Yard by John Byrne Barry is packaged as just that, it might be fairer to characterize it as a novel about corporate crime. There’s a murder in the novel, and a mystery to be solved, but it’s a long time coming in the plot, which is concerned much more with the relationship between the homegrown “Recycle Berkeley” collective and a massive international corporation called Consolidated Scavenger, which is clearly a stand-in for Waste Management.
Love, betrayal, recycling
The plot of Wasted revolves around a set of characters suitable for a soap opera, Berkeley-style. Barb has recently left her crazy lover, Doug, after nearly a decade. Brian, having been obsessively in love with her all that time, has just broken up with his wife, Eileen, and is now sleeping in his office. Doug may be Brian’s best friend, though that’s hard to understand, as Doug appears to be both insane and abusive and has no friends at all.
At the center of this (triangle? rectangle?) lies Recycle Berkeley, known to one and all as Re-Be, the collectively run recycling center that contracts with the City of Berkeley to collect the community’s reusable solid waste. Barb, having helped Doug build Re-Be since the beginning, has now taken a corporate job with Re-Be’s nemesis, Consolidated Scavenger. Naturally, this has sent Doug over the edge (assuming he wasn’t there all along). Brian is hoping to jump-start a new career as an investigative journalist, and Doug has persuaded him to write about what he believes to be the corporation’s criminal efforts to undermine Re-Be. The result, a series of exposes published in a local free weekly newspaper, is underway as Wasted begins. As the story unfolds, we learn progressively more about the role of organized crime in the corporation’s history and its underhanded and possibly criminal tactics to absorb small competitors. Anyone familiar with the history of Waste Management will recognize these allegations.
Adding tension and urgency to the tale is the imminent end of Re-Be’s contract with the City. At the same time, City Council elections are approaching, and one Councilmember is determined to oust Re-Be and steer the contract instead to Consolidated Scavenger. Re-Be is backing her challenger, a member of the leftist political party that will gain a majority on the Council if she is elected.
Does all this sound like Berkeley to you? I’ve lived here for nearly half a century, and I must say it does to me.
Murder in the recycling yard?
To the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever been murdered in the facilities of the Ecology Center, which operates Berkeley’s recycling program. Nor could one Councilmember hold so much sway over the City’s recycling contract or be so much in the public eye, as the novel implies; the Mayor would be far more likely to be featured by the news media. It also seems unlikely that such an obviously deranged person as Doug could hold on for a decade in charge of a complex million-dollar business.
However, with all that said, Wasted is nonetheless a satisfying read (and would probably be more so for someone who doesn’t know much about Berkeley). The author writes well, he understands the recycling business, and he successfully builds suspense to a crescendo. Despite my grumbling about the liberties taken for the sake of simplicity in crafting this story, I enjoyed the book.
About the author
According to an interview with the author that appeared on the local website Berkeleyside, John Byrne Barry “lived in Berkeley for 30 years, served on the board of the Ecology Center, and wrote about recycling issues for local publications, including the East Bay Express.” The Express is a free weekly newspaper much like the paper in the novel. Barry has since written a second novel, Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough, Family is Tougher, set in New Mexico during the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Love, betrayal, recycling
The plot of Wasted revolves around a set of characters suitable for a soap opera, Berkeley-style. Barb has recently left her crazy lover, Doug, after nearly a decade. Brian, having been obsessively in love with her all that time, has just broken up with his wife, Eileen, and is now sleeping in his office. Doug may be Brian’s best friend, though that’s hard to understand, as Doug appears to be both insane and abusive and has no friends at all.
At the center of this (triangle? rectangle?) lies Recycle Berkeley, known to one and all as Re-Be, the collectively run recycling center that contracts with the City of Berkeley to collect the community’s reusable solid waste. Barb, having helped Doug build Re-Be since the beginning, has now taken a corporate job with Re-Be’s nemesis, Consolidated Scavenger. Naturally, this has sent Doug over the edge (assuming he wasn’t there all along). Brian is hoping to jump-start a new career as an investigative journalist, and Doug has persuaded him to write about what he believes to be the corporation’s criminal efforts to undermine Re-Be. The result, a series of exposes published in a local free weekly newspaper, is underway as Wasted begins. As the story unfolds, we learn progressively more about the role of organized crime in the corporation’s history and its underhanded and possibly criminal tactics to absorb small competitors. Anyone familiar with the history of Waste Management will recognize these allegations.
Adding tension and urgency to the tale is the imminent end of Re-Be’s contract with the City. At the same time, City Council elections are approaching, and one Councilmember is determined to oust Re-Be and steer the contract instead to Consolidated Scavenger. Re-Be is backing her challenger, a member of the leftist political party that will gain a majority on the Council if she is elected.
Does all this sound like Berkeley to you? I’ve lived here for nearly half a century, and I must say it does to me.
Murder in the recycling yard?
To the best of my knowledge, nobody has ever been murdered in the facilities of the Ecology Center, which operates Berkeley’s recycling program. Nor could one Councilmember hold so much sway over the City’s recycling contract or be so much in the public eye, as the novel implies; the Mayor would be far more likely to be featured by the news media. It also seems unlikely that such an obviously deranged person as Doug could hold on for a decade in charge of a complex million-dollar business.
However, with all that said, Wasted is nonetheless a satisfying read (and would probably be more so for someone who doesn’t know much about Berkeley). The author writes well, he understands the recycling business, and he successfully builds suspense to a crescendo. Despite my grumbling about the liberties taken for the sake of simplicity in crafting this story, I enjoyed the book.
About the author
According to an interview with the author that appeared on the local website Berkeleyside, John Byrne Barry “lived in Berkeley for 30 years, served on the board of the Ecology Center, and wrote about recycling issues for local publications, including the East Bay Express.” The Express is a free weekly newspaper much like the paper in the novel. Barry has since written a second novel, Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough, Family is Tougher, set in New Mexico during the 2008 Presidential campaign.
October 22, 2015
In reading Wasted, I couldn't stop comparing Brian Hunter with a close friend of mine who lives in Berkeley and takes part in all sorts of actions. I've lived in Berkeley and know the scene. There is a great deal of verisimilitude in Hunter and in the portrait of the city as a hotbed of weird politics. As a character, Hunter may be an amalgam of many people Barry knows, but he definitely exists. As do the women who serve as his foils, though I can't say I recognize them as readily or clearly. Hunter stands out clearly in terms of me getting his energy, feeling his pulse, climbing into his skin and all that. The rest of the characters never fully come into focus for me. I was asking myself as I read if my being gay had anything to do with why I felt annoyed with Hunter being such a skirt chaser (not that the women wore skirts). But then I thought, no, that's real, I've known plenty of gay guys who exhibit similar obsessions, and they're annoying too. So I didn't entirely click with Hunter's energy. He's a bit too OCD for me. Nonetheless I found him a fascinating character study. His motivations for committing journalism seem as much carnal as cerebral. And boy did his carnal desires compromise his integrity! Even so, despite or perhaps because of his flaws, he doesn't just report news, he tells the whole truth. In getting in bed with his subjects, he becomes part of his own story, and thereby produces sensational journalism. The romantic and professional entanglements make the story fun. The suspense kept getting more intense and I found my dives into the book becoming more frequent and anticipated as I got toward the end. Was I surprised? Not entirely, but entertained, yes, thoroughly. It's a colorful cast and crew you've assembled to tell this rowdy romp, which tells more about journalism than about recycling. Using the recycling industry as a way to get into the slimy business of journalism keeps this from being a "message" book about the virtues of recycling. It's more about the shady business of hunting down a good story. Well done!
October 20, 2015
Don’t you just love it when you finish a good book and want to tell everyone you know to read it? That was definitely my experience with John Byrne Barry’s second novel Wasted: Murder in the Recycle Berkeley Yard.
I had had the good fortune to review Barry’s first book Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher for the Bay Area Independent Book Publisher’s Association [BAIPA] 2014 Book Awards competition, and was hooked on Barry’s storytelling panache. He builds drama from his own unique experiences and the real characters he creates.
Bones offers both information and insights into community politics in New Mexico during the 2008 presidential primaries, and Wasted provides the same type of details about recycling efforts and liberals and protests in Berkeley, California. Barry spent time working in both these fields.
But this review is focusing on Wasted, whose main character Brian Hunter narrates his encounters with homeless people picking up cans and defending their territories, friends trying to keep a small recycling business afloat, employees and managers in a large international waste management corporation, and three women including his estranged wife.
Brian is a 40-year-old “loser” to many because he’s not built a success on many fronts. He’s trying to put things together writing $200 a week stories for a weekly newspaper while living in his warehouse office, taking showers at the Y, and riding his bicycle and public transportation to his appointments.
No spoilers here, but Brian gets himself involved in some pretty rough stuff as well as some romantic encounters. Author Barry does a great job describing both – and adding the kinds of surprises that made me want to read every word and get to the end result. I can’t wait to see the movie.
I had had the good fortune to review Barry’s first book Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough. Family is Tougher for the Bay Area Independent Book Publisher’s Association [BAIPA] 2014 Book Awards competition, and was hooked on Barry’s storytelling panache. He builds drama from his own unique experiences and the real characters he creates.
Bones offers both information and insights into community politics in New Mexico during the 2008 presidential primaries, and Wasted provides the same type of details about recycling efforts and liberals and protests in Berkeley, California. Barry spent time working in both these fields.
But this review is focusing on Wasted, whose main character Brian Hunter narrates his encounters with homeless people picking up cans and defending their territories, friends trying to keep a small recycling business afloat, employees and managers in a large international waste management corporation, and three women including his estranged wife.
Brian is a 40-year-old “loser” to many because he’s not built a success on many fronts. He’s trying to put things together writing $200 a week stories for a weekly newspaper while living in his warehouse office, taking showers at the Y, and riding his bicycle and public transportation to his appointments.
No spoilers here, but Brian gets himself involved in some pretty rough stuff as well as some romantic encounters. Author Barry does a great job describing both – and adding the kinds of surprises that made me want to read every word and get to the end result. I can’t wait to see the movie.
May 10, 2017
I really enjoyed this book. It’s the best I’ve read this year. A particular plus for me is that I live in the bay area where the novel is set, and it involves political activists and environmentalists, which I’ve been and know well. However, it is not a do-good novel, but one that shows that every element of society carries all of the self-serving foibles of mankind. While there’s a murder and the reader finds out the killer before the end, it’s not so much a mystery as a journey by the protagonist to try to succeed as a journalist and find a new love. He uncovers a contest between two recycling companies for a lucrative contract to serve the city of Berkeley, California, where the players are not playing by the rules. He hopes his coverage will launch his career
Recently divorced, he hopes to hook up with the wife of the victim. The victim was a friend who beat him out for the attention of the woman he has long desired.
All of the characters are complex, and the writing sets you in the scene.
Recently divorced, he hopes to hook up with the wife of the victim. The victim was a friend who beat him out for the attention of the woman he has long desired.
All of the characters are complex, and the writing sets you in the scene.
December 12, 2018
At the top of the book's cover, in white, small letters, you will read the phrase: "a 'green noir' mystery." You won't find this phrase anywhere else, and, likewise, you won't find a book like this anywhere else.
It combines noir fiction with environmentalism, murderers with hippies, a nonheroic protagonist with a movement that is trying to save the world. All this could only take place in the California Bay Area, spanning the worlds of dangerous Oakland docks, idealistic Berkeley scientists, loud San Franciscan protests.
The pacing of Wasted treats you as any good mystery should. Questions arise, and answers are dangled beyond the next page. The writing is crisp and clean, and there is an absence of cliches and cringe-worthy moments.
The characters get things done and serve their purposes well. The theme of grassroots versus corporations underlies most of their interactions.
Beyond the novelty of "green noir," the rest of the book reads like your standard mystery. One could say that it recycles the ideas of noir into a functional, sustainable product.
It combines noir fiction with environmentalism, murderers with hippies, a nonheroic protagonist with a movement that is trying to save the world. All this could only take place in the California Bay Area, spanning the worlds of dangerous Oakland docks, idealistic Berkeley scientists, loud San Franciscan protests.
The pacing of Wasted treats you as any good mystery should. Questions arise, and answers are dangled beyond the next page. The writing is crisp and clean, and there is an absence of cliches and cringe-worthy moments.
The characters get things done and serve their purposes well. The theme of grassroots versus corporations underlies most of their interactions.
Beyond the novelty of "green noir," the rest of the book reads like your standard mystery. One could say that it recycles the ideas of noir into a functional, sustainable product.
March 18, 2019
More than a mystery, this is an inside look at the political drama in the world of recycling. Who would have thought it so fraught with power-mongering? The writer clearly has first-hand experience with his subject matter. Very well written and entertaining, with a protagonist who's easy to relate to.
November 24, 2015
John Byrne Barry, author of Bones in the Wash: Politics is Tough, Family is Tougher, has written a new political thriller, Wasted: Wasted: Murder in the Berkeley Recycle Yard. Its green cover bills it as a green noir mystery – a delightful term that Barry coined. And it is green noir with “Murder. Betrayal. Aluminum” as the cover advertises.
Brian, the main character, is a struggling, middle-aged reporter tracking the battle for recycling business contracts being fought between the Scavenger Corporation and ReBe, the original recycling collective (Recycle Berkeley, a fictional organization). Brian gets a whiff of corporate corruption and since it’s the waste industry, it stinks. Brian’s also is in longtime lust with Barb, who’s managed ReBe but recently accepted the CEO post of Scavenger, leaving Doug - her husband and Brian’s longtime friend - fighting for ReBe. When Doug turns up dead in a baler (a can compactor) the threads of Brian’s life become suspensefully entwined.
Barry knows how to tell a political tale and make you feel like it’s true. His prose and his dialogue zing with point, counter point, keeping the conflict and the plot lively. What I also like about this book is how Barry has Brian always looking at himself and a man and human. His interior thoughts contrast with his dialogue, bringing spark and reality to his character.
All of Barry’s characters are well drawn – with color and shading; all have flaws and our empathy. He definitely knows how to write men and women as they circle each other with suspicion and desire, as they spontaneously connect and disconnect. He clearly cares for all his characters, good, bad, and in between. And so do us readers.
I recommend Wasted and Bones for Barry’s unique voice which plays through his characters’ actions, thoughts, and situations. I also enjoyed “being there” behind the scenes in political issues that: the environment (Wasted) a mayoral election (Bones). I look forward to seeing what he will tackle in his next novel.
Brian, the main character, is a struggling, middle-aged reporter tracking the battle for recycling business contracts being fought between the Scavenger Corporation and ReBe, the original recycling collective (Recycle Berkeley, a fictional organization). Brian gets a whiff of corporate corruption and since it’s the waste industry, it stinks. Brian’s also is in longtime lust with Barb, who’s managed ReBe but recently accepted the CEO post of Scavenger, leaving Doug - her husband and Brian’s longtime friend - fighting for ReBe. When Doug turns up dead in a baler (a can compactor) the threads of Brian’s life become suspensefully entwined.
Barry knows how to tell a political tale and make you feel like it’s true. His prose and his dialogue zing with point, counter point, keeping the conflict and the plot lively. What I also like about this book is how Barry has Brian always looking at himself and a man and human. His interior thoughts contrast with his dialogue, bringing spark and reality to his character.
All of Barry’s characters are well drawn – with color and shading; all have flaws and our empathy. He definitely knows how to write men and women as they circle each other with suspicion and desire, as they spontaneously connect and disconnect. He clearly cares for all his characters, good, bad, and in between. And so do us readers.
I recommend Wasted and Bones for Barry’s unique voice which plays through his characters’ actions, thoughts, and situations. I also enjoyed “being there” behind the scenes in political issues that: the environment (Wasted) a mayoral election (Bones). I look forward to seeing what he will tackle in his next novel.
August 23, 2016
This was a labored read, and I regret that I didn't feel compelled to finish it in a single evening, like a few other book reviewers. Perhaps the uneven editing would have been less remarkable at high speed. This mystery was chosen by one of my book group members who favors regional fiction, "local" authors. We open to Brian Hunter squatting in his office space, totally realistic in Berkeley. He spends a lot of time with ReBe, a recycling center when he isn't freelance bookkeeping and trying to reframe his 40 year old self into a reporter. Previously he has been in a band, but like his marriage, that's a done deal. ReBe is loosely based on The actual Ecology Center, and Hunter is a good example of nineties masculinity. He is overly entangled with his adversarial friend Doug, and Doug's ex, Barb. I returned to this review to add that I found the book an important exploration of personality cults in poltics, which is more commonly acknowledged in churches.
Ultimately Doug's body turns up in the ReBe yard and Brian takes his grief over Doug in hand to investigate the relationship between ReBe, Consolidated Scavenger and the turncoat, Barb. The novel is rich in characters, visual images and a few gritty people. Barb has defected to Consolidated and is the potential scapegoat for the sabotage of ReBe by Berkeley city politics. Brian's innocent pursuit of Doug's murder becomes an exercise in denial and acting out, which is surprisingly plausible.
Without giving a spoiler, here is my favorite quote from the book: "Actually Barb's been giving me mixed signals all along. I remeber what an advice columnist siad, that when some one gives mixed signals, it's actually a message that couldn't be clearer-I'M trouble and you should stay away from me." (p.257)
Now that's not a mystery.
Ultimately Doug's body turns up in the ReBe yard and Brian takes his grief over Doug in hand to investigate the relationship between ReBe, Consolidated Scavenger and the turncoat, Barb. The novel is rich in characters, visual images and a few gritty people. Barb has defected to Consolidated and is the potential scapegoat for the sabotage of ReBe by Berkeley city politics. Brian's innocent pursuit of Doug's murder becomes an exercise in denial and acting out, which is surprisingly plausible.
Without giving a spoiler, here is my favorite quote from the book: "Actually Barb's been giving me mixed signals all along. I remeber what an advice columnist siad, that when some one gives mixed signals, it's actually a message that couldn't be clearer-I'M trouble and you should stay away from me." (p.257)
Now that's not a mystery.
November 23, 2015
Murder, betrayal and recycling in a Berkeley setting = lots of fun. Well-written and a page-turner whodunit. Believe it or not, I liked learning some of the nuances of waste management, too. After all, everyone has to get rid of trash, junk, garbage and recyclables even if not in a community as rife with political allegiances as Berkeley. Of course, true to the genre, someone in the story also gets rid of a human being with some volatile character traits and not a few enemies. Author Byrne Barry brings humor and romance into the mix. His detective is a layman and freelance journalist, tenacious almost to a fault.
March 3, 2016
I really enjoyed the twists and turns of Wasted, the way the characters got themselves and each other into situations that really put the squeeze on them and forced them to make decisions that revealed some new or hidden part of them. There was, even in the highest risk and danger scenes, a tone that did not feel gritty, but that held onto a kind of 'we know it must turn out ok' feeling. That's not to say that gritty things didn't happen, just that my guts were not wrenching. And that was just fine; I was not looking for something to put me in knots. Very enjoyable!
October 24, 2015
I thought this book was really well written, although by the end I was tired of all the plot twists. I loved the recycling and Berkeley themes. Some of the stuff about the struggle over the recycling yard reminded me of the late-nineties camp outside of KPFA. There was a bit of stuff about women that I feel like he could have left out or written differently, but it's mostly at the end... Not my best review, but whatever.
February 11, 2017
I received a free copy of this book as a Goodreads giveaway.
Well, it's all a bit unlikely but nevertheless it moves along at a good pace and ticks the boxes as regards this genre of novel.
Well, it's all a bit unlikely but nevertheless it moves along at a good pace and ticks the boxes as regards this genre of novel.
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