The Buck Passes Flynn

. ★ ★ 1/2 In the introduction to one those books of essays by established authors on “How to” Gregory McDonald once casually mentioned that Flynn stepped onto pages of Confess, Fletch so fully formed that McDonald needed to produce another three books to explore the character to his satisfaction. That......more

An odd little tale published at the start of the greedy 80s which later produced the crisis of the new millenium (what around here we like to call the "uh-oh" years.) Small towns in the US are being flooded with cash money that appears on people's porches or in their cars, a hundred grand at a crack......more

Definitely takes a (not unearned) jaundiced eye's view of our country's fiat money system. It is as much economic treatise, as mystery novel, but written in a fun black humor. As fun as the character of Flynn is, pulling him out of the original idea of the character: a secret agent put into deep cov......more

Written in 1981 this is somewhat dated. More importantly, it is a bit silly. There is a lot of foolishness concerning the economy (which doesn't work anything like in the book) and currency. Also it seemed full of filler that just slowed it down.......more

Ridiculous plot but loads of fun. McDonald reminds us that he's (or was) a master with a keen sense of humor.......more