Fine Lines

One-Eyed Mack #6

by Jim Lehrer

Someone is killing Oklahoma's state legislators one by one. First Jonah Morgan (D-Utokah) is shot between the eyes. Then Willard (Tipp) Freeman (D-Ponca City) is thrown from a hotel window in downtown Oklahoma City. Two more lawmakers are felled before Governor Buffalo Joe Hayman can scream for justice. As always when something is fishy in the Great State of Oklahoma, Joe orders the lieutenant governor, the One-eyed Mack, to find out who's responsible. If that was all Mack had to do, it would probably be easy. But the usual suspects are up to their usual tricks. C., the one-eared director of the OBI (Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation), and Buffalo Joe are at each other's throats. Mack's wife, Jackie, may have become irreversibly tetched by the run-away success of JackieMart, her nationwide chain of drive-through convenience stores. Their son, Tommy Walt, needs Mack's help in developing a recycling scheme that will change the way business is done in Oklahoma, America, and the world. And the curator of the Museum of the Cherokee Strip, Sandra Faye Parsons, keeps trying to use the mummy of John Wilkes Booth to get Mack to strip for her! In Jim Lehrer's sixth One-eyed Mack mystery, his sharp eye for satire glints as strongly as ever. By the final chapters of Fine Lines, readers everywhere will know why the people of Oklahoma couldn't find themselves a better, more charming lieutenant governor than the One-eyed Mack.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

James Charles Lehrer was an American journalist and the news anchor for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, known for his role as a frequent debate moderator during elections. Lehrer was an author of non-fiction and fiction, drawing from his experiences and interests in history and politics.

Reviews

[Cindy Grossi · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a hoot! I have got to read the whole series. Never knew Jim Lehrer was the Carl Hiassen of Oklahoma.

[Polly]

Jim Lehrer, RIP, makes me laugh out loud.

[Barbara Nutting · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another tongue-in-cheek spoof on politics in general and lieutenant governors in particular!! He certainly brings Oklahoma to life!! The John Wilkes Booth mummy is a true story and there is a Maryland Mansion (they have a spectacular tour on their website). I like the way he weaves fact and fiction together. This book was written in 1994 so I enjoyed the homosexual reference and am glad to see how far we have come by 2017!! Even though the plots are goofy he always has a moral at the end that leaves me with a lump in my throat. Unfortunately I'm reading these backwards but Book 1 is waiting for me at the library!!

[Pat · Rating 3 out of 5]

One Eyed Mack is lieutenant governor. Has to solve killings of 3 Democratic Oklahoma state legislators.
Light, funny.