The Eighth Day--#76 finished

This is a book that I have had on the shelf for a quite a few years.  I am not sure where I picked it up at but it has a water stain on about the last 50 pages and usually I avoid those books.  I had it on a stack of books that I hadn't read but also couldn't mail out on PBS & it sat there & sat there.  Finally I dug those books out & gave away a couple and kept some like this one to read.  Then with vacation coming up figured it was time to pull it out, if I decided to read outside during vacation, then this book would be good.  It is about an artist that also does a little private investigating on the side.  He is basically broke with only a few hours a week job at a small art house.  He gets an offer from a businessman instead of the local lawyers that usually use his services and he decides the money is too good and gets wrapped up in an international investigation and a killing spree by his client.  He figures it out midway through but only a couple more names of people he found are alive.  He is off to Turkey & the area of the Kurds to find one & let them know the bad people are after them.  This book takes a long time to get going and not really sure it ever got exciting enough to be a good adventure read.  It is an older book published in 2002 so with technology as it is, it is just a different time.  Not a bad read but nothing special either.

Since has the water stain cannot post on PBS.  The author John Case is actually a nom de plume for a husband and wife team Jim & Carolyn Hogan--Carolyn has passed away but she also autographed the book.  Even still it will probably be a give away book, probably donate to the library for them to sell.