Escape

Why would a writer of minor courtroom dramas have a ghost writer?  I don't know Robert Tanenbaum from a bum on the street.  I can imagine Stephen King using a ghost writer; he is very well known and extremely prolific.  How does he write all that stuff?  But back to this, I see from Amazon that he has a new ghost writer.  I had liked the old ghost writer's books.  Whoa, I just looked on Wikipedia and see that Tanenbaum used to be mayor of Beverly Hills.  He used to write with his cousin and now he has other people to "help" him write.  Would all this matter if I had enjoyed this book more?  Probably not.

His protagonists are Butch Karp and Marlene Ciambi.  They used to just bicker with each other and solve cases brilliantly.  Now they are fighting terrorists.  This book, Escape, was pretty amusing because it keeps referring to recent books where they defeated everyone but the Nazis.  This time it is too similar to Extreme Measures in attempting to stop terrorists from blowing something big up and causing chaos in the Western World so some lunatic, power-hungry Saudi could take over the Entire World.  Diverting, but poorly written trash.

For all who are keeping score, I learned today that I am cancer-free in the middle regions of my body.  So that is really the Escape worth writing about.