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Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, Jesse Hamilton reaches out to maverick lawyer Claude McCutcheon for help when he discovers some disturbing facts about the computer company he works for. Now Claude must follow a deadly trail to uncover the truth.
Rezensionen (4)
Publisher's Weekly-Rezension
Claude McCutcheon (Cutdown), a lawyer with his own small practice in the East Bay town of Albany, Calif., finds a child dumped on his doorstep. The abandoned boy is a quiet four-year-old named Earl, whose father, Jesse Hamilton, was in Claude's platoon in Vietnam. Jesse is in serious trouble. Although he hasn't seen Claude in more than 30 years, he has decided that Claude is the only person he can trust with his son. Claude knows that he must track Jesse down by locating his more recent associates, including several of the other men from the platoon; as he does, dreadful memories of war haunt him. Jesse, Claude learns, had been working for a Silicon Valley firm called Sentinel Microsystems. For a high-tech company, Sentinel employs some awfully vicious thugs. Apparently, Jesse had something on a computer disk that they want back. They believe that Claude now has the diskand they aim to retrieve it. Miller's plot isn't entirely fresh, nor is his Vietnam-revisited theme. He's strong on atmosphere, however ("Dawn eased over the East Bay hills like year-old motor oil draining slowly out of a crankcase"), and Claude makes for an appealingly moody hero who harbors hidden depths beneath his roiled surface. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus-Rezension
Miller's laid-back, pistol-packing legal champion of the San Francisco Bay Area's down-and-out returns in a meandering tale of honor and betrayal among Viet Nam vets. Vet-turned-lawyer Claude McCutcheon (Cutdown, 1997) is just beginning to enjoy good coffee, colorful hard-luck cases, and the good-and-cheap Bay Area restaurant scene when Earl, the four-year-old son of an army buddy McCutcheon hasn't seen in 30 years, arrives unannounced at McCutcheon's book-lined walk-up. McCutcheon doesn't need a threatening visit by grizzled Barton Jones, another Viet Nam vet now employed as a tough-talking security chief for a Sentinel Microsystems, a Silicon Valley company, or the snooping by the beautiful-yet-competent FBI Agent Rita Johnson to figure out that Earl's father, Jesse Hamilton, has gotten himself in trouble. When McCutcheon blows away an armed intruder, he figures that his apartment is no place for an impressionable youngster. He parks the child with a former client, then searches for Hamilton among the burned-out, drug-addicted vets who used to know him. A phone call to Barton Jones's smarmy boss, J. Watson Mellon, reveals that Hamilton has stolen a computer disk with high-tech secrets on it--and that a handsome reward awaits its rescue. McCutcheon isn't much concerned with rewards, of course, especially after another Viet Nam buddy is mistaken for McCutcheon--and killed. Meanwhile, Miller's slow-paced plotting isn't half as interesting as the Bay Area ex-cons, transvestite restauranteurs, and shady others of McCutcheon's world. After touring this world, Agent Johnson falls hard for McCutcheon when she glimpses his first edition of T.E. Lawrence. She even lets him give her tips on how to shoot a handgun, tips that later become important. More assured as a storyteller, though perhaps too comfortable with tired genre conventions, Miller has his best book yet in what appears to be a series about the peculiar pathologies that have turned some vets good and others very, very bad. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist-Rezension
Claude McCutcheon isn't the "dad" type. He's a Berkeley, California, lawyer who doesn't do much lawyering, likes the occasional lady, but otherwise leads a solitary life. Then old Vietnam platoon-mate Jesse Hamilton leaves his four-year-old son on Claude's doorstep. Claude's search for the missing Jesse leads him to Sentinel Microsystems, which claims Jesse stole information from them. The company--in the person of security chief Barton Jones--will do what it takes to find Hamilton. The threat is obvious, but Sentinel is mistaken if it thinks it can scare Claude off. He's much tougher than his debonair demeanor indicates, smarter than he lets on, and more loyal to his Vietnam partners than anyone could fathom. The second McCutcheon novel (following Cutdown, 1997) is a carefully plotted, character-driven thriller with generous doses of humor and a memorable conclusion. --Wes Lukowsky
Library Journal-Rezension
Having won the 1996 California Book Award for First Published Work of Fiction, Miller gets to prove his staying power with this new work. Like his first novel, Cutdown, it features Vietnam vet Claude McCutcheon, who suddenly finds himself in charge of an army buddy's four-year-old son. From there it's one quick step to investigating strange doings at the Silicon Valley company where the boy's father works. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.