Talking to Strange Men
by Ruth Rendell
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Author: Ruth RendellEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1987-09-12
ISBN: 0394563247
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Pantheon
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Book Review: My First Rendell Book: 3½ stars
Summary: 3 Stars
By accident, John Creevey, a middle-aged, not-yet-divorced man, stumbles across a secret code drop run by a "mini-Mafia" of young students, the leader being 14-year-old Mungo Cameron, one of the main characters. Their paths later cross when John attempts to communicate with them by putting a hit out on his wife's lover, a known pedophile.I really got into "Talking to Strange Men" at the beginning, but my interest petered out about a third of the way through when nothing really explosive had happened so far--it's just John pining for his wife and Mungo going about his everyday life at school and home. My interest was piqued again, though, by the end when one of the "mini-Mafia" agents is assigned to tail the above-mentioned pedophile. Despite the book being slow-paced and burdened with too many underage spies and their seemingly meaningless assignments, I'd still recommend "Talking to Strange Men" to mystery readers who're into British psychological suspense, mainly existing Ruth Rendell fans.
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