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Slow Burn (Leo Waterman Mysteries)
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780380793679
ISBN: 0380793679
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: February 01, 1999
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: February 01, 1999
Studio: Avon
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Editorial Review:
G.M. Ford's unconventional private detective, Leo Waterman, jolts the p.i. scene like a double shot of espresso from a sleek Seattle coffee bar. Aided by his band of scruffy irregulars -- "the Boys," a team of residentially challenged connoisseur of inexpensive spirits -- Leo remains Seattle's most unorthodox p.i. Now, SLOW BURN ignites the fuse on the most combustible entry in the waterman cannon.
Anticipating disaster, a prestigious global restaurant convention hires Leo as Special Security Officer. His assignment: monitor the movements of two adversarial steakhouse competitors whose "beef" has previously made for some nasty confrontations and a food critic who's caught in between the warring factions. Leo sends the Boys off to shadow all three parties and report back to him. But even the simplest of plans can casade into catastrophe. And Leo soon finds himself served up as the prime suspect in a murder...realizing that both his life and career are at stake.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Clever parody of Rex Stout's "Some Buried Caesar"
I've always regarded Some Buried Caesar as one of the best Nero Wolfe novels but this homage/parody of it may actually be even better. Ford takes the basic idea of Some Buried Caasar - a controversy erupts when a champion bull is scheduled to be the main attraction at a barbeque - but updates the story with animal rights activists and a crazy helicoptor delivery sequence that is nothing short of howlingly funny. There are just enough references to Stout's characters to entertain readers familar with ... Read More
Rating: - Good but had such potential to be better
I was told that this book was a disappointment. I have to agree and disagree. It is a good book - it really does approach the level of being a great farce of a detective novel. The client is outrageous and the people he investigates are larger than life throughout the story. At times, Waterman is the only sane man in the room. It makes it a fun ride - but I finished the book pleased but quite sure that it could have been even more if Ford had pushed a bit more. I would have liked for him to have met ... Read More
Rating: - laugh so hard I had tears running
It isn't my usual fare. I like them dark and gritty. Leo does have moments like that. Harry Bosch, the "newer" Elvis Cole, Charlie Parker and their close relations in the book field are part of my usual fare along with a lot of even darker authors.
Leo is a bit of that with a lot of Archie McNally and several other good 'laugh' series thrown in. Look close at the reality and it hurts. He comes across as someone who knows this and laugh is better than crying when faced with something ... Read More
Rating:  - Slow Burn Never Catches
Mr. Ford's excellent "Fury" led me to purchase this book, my introduction to Leo Waterman. It was a disappointment. Leo seems like a pale imitation of James Crumley's Milo Milodragovitch with a little of Robert Parker's Spencer thrown in for good measure.
The plot is confusing and depends too much on visuals; nice in a movie but a strain in a book. Leo is hired to protect the good name of the La Cuisine International who are holding their first non-European convention in a five-star Seattle hotel. ... Read More
Rating: - Only in Seattle
Leo Waterman is a P.I. with independent means who employs an odd assortment of associates. He discovered that the best people to use on a stakeout are the street people who are a normal part of the cityscape. He also gets help from his relatives scattered throughout the city's civil service thanks to the nepotism of his late father.
Leo is hired to defuse a situation between two rival steakhouse chains whose actions might disrupt an international convention at one of Seattle's leading hotels. A side issue ... Read More
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