They have moved those bums a few streets away now.Īnd, of course, the music. Pine Street where, when I used to work summers with my grandfather on his vending route, we would have breakfast at diners and dodge the exceedingly large number of homeless men. They don’t drive down a fictional street they drive down Pine St., the gentrified place I spoke of earlier. It is very reminiscent of something James Ellroy does, in that Danny Beckett does not merely drink vodka, he drinks Grey Goose.
It speaks of places with a penchant of knowledge and directness that most books of this nature do not. There is another thing that I found to be particularly different and that was the specificity of the book. The book is succinct and not filled with too much clutter as often writers do to fill pages. The subject matter is serious and some of it even Chinatown esque and yet the jocularity that is provided throughout the book never detracts from the overall telling of the story. Dre and Snoop Dogg made their bones and the gentrified Pine Street, where hipsters and yuppies now populate the landscape. Rarely does a book take place in a locale such as Long Beach, California where Dilts deftly describes the streets where Dr. The frustration mounts and even though the killer is fairly easy to figure out, it does not diminish the feeling of excitement that the book takes us on. Beckett along with his martial arts expert partner, Jen Tanaka, take us through the case from their point of view and lead us along bad lead after bad lead. Dilts does a remarkable job of bringing us into the fold as we watch Beckett delve into the case. I love the feeling of isolation that lead character, in this case Danny Beckett, gets when he thinks about his case, his deceased wife and his feelings of failure in his life. Those are some of the things that draw me to these stories. You can’t have a cop come home to his Norman Rockwell family after seeing a grisly murder. Those are things that we come to expect out of these types of stories. It invokes many of the standard genre themes that go along with writing a murder/police procedural like the cop that’s too close to a crime, the cop that drinks too much and the cop that is widowed, divorced or a bachelor. Today we’re going to review a book I thoroughly enjoyed called A King of Infinite Space by Tyler Dilts. As I said yesterday, we’re going to be covering more than just music here for the near future and perhaps the far future as well.
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