My Name is Cervantes and I’ll Be Your Waiter Unless Hollywood Calls Before I’ve Recited Today’s Specials
Wellington Leg: Eddie’s Book Nook has a list of mini-reviews posted today. Eddie has his thoughts on the latest from Alex Carr ( Jenny Siler) Steven Sidor, Jose Latour, Joseph Wambaugh, Brent Ghelfi, Kjell Eriksson and Cervantes.
THE MIRROR’S EDGE by Steven Sidor: Okay, you don’t like the horror genre. You don’t like scary books. This is one of the most well written novels you’ll read this year, so get over your genre angst and go get the book.
THE PRINCE OF BAGRAM PRISON by Alex Carr. This is Jenny Siler’s second Alex Carr novel published by Mortalis a Random House imprint. Your reporter is writing a full scale review for January, but I can tell you that Eddie liked it. He spilled coffee on his shirt and still liked it.
HIDDEN IN HAVANA by Jose Latour. Reviewed in January. Great story, wonderful setting, subtle sense of fun in the prose.
VOLK’S GAME by Brent Ghelfi. Picador has a wonderful list often overlooked by Big Box Candy Mountain. Let’s find a hero in Mother Russia.
THE DEMON OF DAKAR by Kjell Eriksson. We take terrible liberties with Eriksson’s work swiping blog post titles hijacking entire Swedish cities into Wellington Leg. I use the word “we” to spread the blame around. Sometimes I wish this were a group blog.
Miguel Cervantes: this is the guy who started it all. Well, he’s back in the form of spam. There’s a Dylan song with a reference to Cervantes but I can’t think of which one it is.
Editors Note: Almost forgot HOLLYWOOD CROWS by Joseph Wambaugh. If you’re a fan this is like coming home again. I’m not crazy about the acronymic title, but this has all the elements of his best work updated in the service of youth.