The blues of the dam.

This is the first novel by Donald Westlake I read and type "polar hilarious" m often exasperates the movies. Despite the many lengths of the more than six hundred pages of this river novel, I managed to read it through.

the history of research of the spoils of a robbery of $ 700,000 stashed in a coffin, before the construction of a dam that will flood the city in an artificial lake, is very original.

The hero Dortmunder should exercise of imagination to prevent the villain (with whom he is associated with the knowledge of his own free will) to blow up the dam and flood the valley below.

A merry band branques will therefore expand according to technical alléas the treasure hunt: diving instructor, computer, driver, small-time robbers. The past of the wicked will also catch up and give rise to some tragicomic misunderstandings.

Forgetting the principle of diving decompression, it seems that the novel should not have technically to exceed divers apprentices over fifty pages, but hey, you're not home Cousteau!

As luck would have it often: taken entirely at random, I read this novel at the edge of St. Croix artificial lake in the Verdon, near the dam.

A good holiday reading, but this kind of humor, and these rather improbable adventures are quickly boring for my taste.