![]() ![]() You have a reputation for digging things up that are lost.” Charlie poured himself some green tea from a cast-iron pot. The novel opens Sax Rohmer-style in the murky heart of Boston’s Chinatown, where Clive encounters the sidekicks, Salvador and Mackenzie, who will accompany him on his adventure, and then he’s kidnapped by a group of thugs and whisked away to meet Charlie Wang, “businessman.” ![]() So it comes as no surprise that his latest novel is a thriller with a fast-paced plot, an entirely new genre for Goodman, set primarily in China, and told in the first-person by Clive Allan, a private detective retired from the United States Office of Inspector General. Setting the Family Free, a story about wild animals escaping from a private menagerie in central Ohio, is told from a multiplicity of points of view, including some of the animals’. Womb, his next novel, is told from the perspective of an unborn child who watches the messy drama between his parents unfold. ![]() Tracks is an episodic narrative that focuses Roshomon-like on different characters – passengers on a train from Baltimore to Chicago. While all of his novels are intelligently written, they all take on different narrative styles and perspectives. ![]()
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