But as repetitions, as pages where nothing gets done! The novel is very flat, nearly 500 pages, we get bored. We do not find the humor and fantasy of Westlake.
We are told that this novel written in the 60s and published in the 2010s after the death of Westlake, is a gem. Pearl potential then, and without fulfillment. The simplest explanation to the fact that this novel was not published during the lifetime of its author is that he was not terrible. No doubt he would have deserved to be rewritten but, as is, I do not advise it.
