{"id":2802,"date":"2019-01-20T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T13:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2019-01-20T08:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T13:09:27","slug":"and-the-5-star-reviews-keep-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tedkrever.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/20\/and-the-5-star-reviews-keep-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"And the 5-star Reviews Keep Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Toni V. Sweeney<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.0 out of 5 stars<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great Novel and Wild as Can Be<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

January 17, 2019 Format: Kindle Edition<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens to a confidence man once he\u2019s lost his confidence? Nothing good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After years of selling legendary fakes to well-heeled clients in Paris, Nicky Sandler\u2019s luck has run dry. His new wife wants out, his partner is collapsing from dementia\u2014a fatal flaw in a conman\u2014and the anti-terrorism squad is camped outside his window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swindler & Son is the story of a man with a gift for larceny, forced against his will to try to do the right thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above synopsis doesn\u2019t do the plot justice. Suffice it to say Swindler & Son can\u2019t easily be summarized with a few well-placed sentences.
As some would say, you simply had to be there.
The entire novel is an interrogation, of Nicholas Marsh (or Nicky Sandler or any of a dozen aliases), the narrator, by Colonel Qadir, head of Wadiirah Security, after Nicky\u2019s conman partner\/foster father, a man rushing head-long into dementia, tries to blow up the country with a nuclear device. Nicky does all the talking; Qadir is merely a voice-over, putting in a question now and then to move the story along.
And away we go!
What a story it is, reminiscent in places (in its frenetic pace and believable\/unbelievable plot) of such movies as It\u2019s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming, or\u2014to really stretch a point\u2014in its Middle Eastern aspects, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (don\u2019t quote me here, let\u2019s say as I remember these movies!) as well as reminding me in certain ways of the novel In Her Majesty\u2019s Occult Service (without the supernatural elements), as well as some of the more complicated sketches of Monty Python where all seems unrelated but comes together in the end, making perfect (?) sense.
In other words, it\u2019s entertaining while at the same time, having a chaotic and off-the-wall sensation. You understand it while it\u2019s happening but on thinking back\u2026?
Madcap? Maybe. Zany? Yes. Frantic? Definitely. Entertaining? Oh, yeah!
It\u2019s best to read this novel in one sitting, for if you put it down and come back later, indeed, if you even glance away for a moment, you may lose the train of thought. Don\u2019t blink or you\u2019ll be saying, as Colonel Qadir does at one point, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on? You lost me.\u201d
Though I don\u2019t like stories written in the first person present and don\u2019t voluntarily read them, I was soon caught up in this story. Well-written, easily read, this is a novel that\u2019ll make the reader seek out more Ted Krever books, such as the Max Renn thrillers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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