TARGET PRACTICE

by Nicholas Meyer ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 20, 1974

Where else but in Southern California could the search to avenge the honor of an accused POW collaborator who has apparently committed suicide turn into a tale of murder, incest, and political intrigue? Mark Brill is your usual hundred dollar a day plus expenses ex-cop private dick, Shelly Rollins is the beautiful young client whom the gruff but honest detective must rebuff, and Penny Klein's the old flame who inexplicably keeps on waiting for her man to outgrow his childish vocation. Meanwhile Brill de-mythifies a Viet War major on his way to rightwing fame as an upholder of law and order, conveniently forgetting a mini-My Lai spree in some forgotten Asian village, possibly in Cambodia, where -- if anyone remembers -- we weren't supposed to be in the first place. The detective is rather unconvincing -- and Meyer doesn't write as well as Ross Macdonald although he's working in the same terrain with slick efficiency.

Pub Date: March 20, 1974

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1974

Categories: FICTION