{"id":16058,"date":"2021-11-22T18:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16058"},"modified":"2021-11-22T18:31:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:31:27","slug":"wake-up-and-die-by-jack-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16058","title":{"rendered":"‘Wake Up and Die,’ by Jack Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The fourth novel<\/strong> in Jack Lynch\u2019s Pete Bragg series, about a private detective in San Francisco in the 1980s, is Wake Up and Die<\/a><\/em>. It started a little slow, I thought, but finished strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pete gets a client referral to a prosperous local bookie. The man has received some photographs of his daughter. She\u2019s naked with a man in the pictures, and they look like stills from some kind of professional film. When Pete suggests the man just ask his daughter about them, he refuses. He doesn\u2019t even want Pete to talk to her himself. Instead he needs to nose around among her circle of acquaintances and find out what\u2019s gone wrong. Pete thinks that\u2019s insane, but families are what they are and the client knows best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He learns, to his surprise, that the daughter is actually doing pretty well. She\u2019s engaged to the heir of a wealthy property developer. But as Pete noses around that family\u2019s business, he learns that they\u2019re involved in a major oceanside development project. And that project has attracted some pretty shady partners, who are making unexpected and puzzling changes in the plans. People Pete very much wants to talk to all seem to have gone on vacations, or are just strangely unreachable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon there will be murder, and arson, and major battery against someone Pete cares about. And now that he\u2019s mad, the gloves will come off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought Wake Up and Die<\/em> meandered somewhat in the first half, but once things started happening, it grabbed me but good. The language isn\u2019t bad (the rules were a little different as recently as this), and though the sexual bits were such as I can\u2019t approve of, they\u2019re almost quaint (like ’80s San Francisco itself ) by 21st<\/sup> Century standards. I liked Wake Up and Die,<\/em> and continue to enjoy the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fourth novel in Jack Lynch\u2019s Pete Bragg series, about a private detective in San Francisco in the 1980s, is Wake Up and Die. It started a little slow, I thought, but finished strong. Pete gets a client referral to a prosperous local bookie. The man has received some photographs of his daughter. She\u2019s naked … Continue reading ‘Wake Up and Die,’ by Jack Lynch<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[3898,3899,3959],"class_list":["post-16058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-jack-lynch","tag-pete-bragg","tag-wake-up-and-die"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16060,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16058\/revisions\/16060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}