Hurwitz continues to surprise us, enthrall us, keep us on edge as the tables turn 180 degrees in a flash.

When he eventually connects with Anjelina Urrea, there’s a wrinkle in the situation that need a massive alteration of his plans. Standing now at the edge of the spit-polished dance floor watching his daughter pinball between clusters of friends in her burnt-orange quinceañera dress, he understood that he could not be as bad as his reputation suggested because she came from him.His wonderful voice inflections brought the multiple characters to life in the “theater” of my mind.

He’d offered Mick Jagger ten million dollars to fly down here to no-fuck-where South Texas and sing it himself, but Mick Jagger didn’t need ten million dollars or the reputational damage.

Usually, they are complicating the subject at hand further more, and you would expect them at around the 80 percent mark of the novel. It's like watching a game of soccer, and at some point the referee blows his whistle and everyone starts unpacking their tennis rackets. There is much for Smoak to observe and learn from Aragon, they engage in fascinating discussions on life and family, many of them on morality and philosophy, such as maturity is graduating from the belief that the world misunderstands you to the awareness that you misunderstand the world. Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published. Evan normally doesn’t help people who aren’t innocent, but it’s not the daughter’s fault that her father makes his living the way he does, and when Evan learns more, he decides to help.