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Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 6 years ago
Punchy art, amusing characters and story. It has a point, but isn't too heavy-handed about getting there. Library copy
Olga Godim
Olga Godim rated it 12 years ago
I loved this book. Written by Richard Belzer in collaboration with Michael Black, it is inseparable from Belzer’s persona. Although it is a novel, the protagonist is Belzer himself. A fictional account of a real person is not a new concept. There are novels aplenty about many historical figures, but...
Sharon E. Cathcart
Sharon E. Cathcart rated it 16 years ago
After 10 years of portraying Detective Sergeant John Munch (between "Homicide: Life on the Streets" and "Law & Order: SVU"), it somehow seems only natural that Richard Belzer write a murder mystery. Except that Munch is not the protagonist in the story - Belzer himself becomes the investigator due ...
Osho
Osho rated it 16 years ago
Merchants of Madness is a brief but densely-packed overview of the history of methamphetamine production and distribution in Burma/Myanmar, and the military/governmental/criminal systems that support it. To explain why yaba ("crazy medicine") is the substance of choice for regional manufacture and s...
sandin954
sandin954 rated it 16 years ago
The Belzer character was fun but the plot was only OK.
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