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Dan Fortune #12
Minnesota Strip
Hired to track down a missing kid bent on avenging the brutal murder of a beautiful Vietnamese refugee, Dan Fortune finds himself deep in a nasty network of white slavery, narcotics and hired killers. The bloody trail of bodies gets uglier and more complex by the minute. Fortune has to make it all add up---before someone adds his name to the list.
- GenresMystery
264 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1987
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About the author
Michael Collins
35 books6 followersMichael Collins was a Pseudonym of Dennis Lynds (1924–2005), a renowned author of mystery fiction. Raised in New York City, he earned a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart during World War II, before returning to New York to become a magazine editor. He published his first book, a war novel called Combat Soldier, in 1962, before moving to California to write for television.
Two years later Collins published the Edgar Award–winning Act of Fear (1967), which introduced his best-known character: the one-armed private detective Dan Fortune. The Fortune series would last for more than a dozen novels, spanning three decades, and is credited with marking a more politically aware era in private-eye fiction. Besides the Fortune novels, the incredibly prolific Collins wrote science fiction, literary fiction, and several other mystery series. He died in Santa Barbara in 2005.
Two years later Collins published the Edgar Award–winning Act of Fear (1967), which introduced his best-known character: the one-armed private detective Dan Fortune. The Fortune series would last for more than a dozen novels, spanning three decades, and is credited with marking a more politically aware era in private-eye fiction. Besides the Fortune novels, the incredibly prolific Collins wrote science fiction, literary fiction, and several other mystery series. He died in Santa Barbara in 2005.
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April 16, 2017
Dan Fortune has one arm. I figured that out at the third hint. The fourth mention, they came right out and said it.
A Vietnamese woman is killed on the Minnesota Strip. That's a section of New York City. She'd been living with an American family in Long Island. Their son was involved in some way and is missing.
Mostly, this book is a lot of exposition. Exposition about Vietnam, drugs, the poor, the middle class, the evils of capitalism, etc.
Dan Fortune runs around talking to people and not finding anything out. Over and over. Finally, some things start coming together and the troubles go way deeper than the initial crime. I couldn't wait for this book to be over.
A Vietnamese woman is killed on the Minnesota Strip. That's a section of New York City. She'd been living with an American family in Long Island. Their son was involved in some way and is missing.
Mostly, this book is a lot of exposition. Exposition about Vietnam, drugs, the poor, the middle class, the evils of capitalism, etc.
Dan Fortune runs around talking to people and not finding anything out. Over and over. Finally, some things start coming together and the troubles go way deeper than the initial crime. I couldn't wait for this book to be over.
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