Punchy art, amusing characters and story. It has a point, but isn't too heavy-handed about getting there. Library copy
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...
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 ...
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...
The Belzer character was fun but the plot was only OK.