Larry Bassett’s Reviews > Fire Sale > Status Update

I fingered my own head bandage reflexively. “Adrenaline thrills? Maybe that’s my shortcoming: I take risks so I can get the job done—I don’t take jobs so I can run risks.”

That was good to know: it was good to know I was sinking thousands of dollars into an investigation I hadn’t been hired to take on while I abandoned the business that made money for me.

This book gives us a close-up view of the community that VI grew up in, and that still exists in South Chicago. It is a community where people struggle to meet their basic needs.

Book starts out immediately with action and the usual danger for VI.

Wherever you are, people get shot, maimed, killed, so either you knew it was going to happen or you made it happen. What got you so interested in that factory?

Fashion competition in the detective business: "Jacqui clicked along next to him in her high heels, her bias-cut skirt swirling around her knees in a very feminine way. I felt acutely aware of my torn trousers and dirty parka."

V. I. Warshawski says, ". . . I suppose the main reason I'm a detective is a voyeur's interest in other people's lives."