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Title: Blind Eye: A Benjamin Justice Novel by John Morgan Wilson ISBN: 0-312-30919-8 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Benjamin Justice deserves better
Comment: As a fervent Justice fan, I was excited that Wilson had chosen to explore the man's arrival at middle age, an ironic and poignant time for anyone, but especially for the fascinatingly flawed and complex hero of the series. And while we do get some touching passages on this theme, they are unfortunately drowned out by a wild and improbable plot that left me cold. Must the poor man, after having (1) shot his abusive father dead as a teenager, (2) professionally disgraced himself in a lurid scandal, (3) lost his lover to AIDS, and (4) turned seropositive after being raped, now also be revealed to have been sexually molested as a child, to say nothing of subjected to excruciating physical torture? Even an implausible tryst with a 19-year-old hunk fails to save the balding and paunchy Benjamin from this grand guignol ride through hell, culminating in a Dante-like climax straight out of a Christopher Lee movie.
Wilson has lost none of his pageturner skills, but Benjamin Justice deserves a lot better than this superficial and tiresome potboiler.
Rating: 4
Summary: "Bless me father, for I have sinned."
Comment: It's so nice to see Benjamin Justice back again, as I thought that we had seen the last of him after his last outing. John Morgan Wilson has written yet another timely, fast paced and speedy thriller, as Benjamin delves into his Catholic past, and opens a Pandora's box of lies, betrayals and murder within the Catholic church. Wilson, like Britain's Val McDermid and Ruth Rendell, just loves to insert current controversial events into his stories and Blind Eye is no exception. With so much in the media lately about pedophilia and the Catholic Church, it's not surprising that Wilson felt the need to explore this issue, and he does it in an extremely confrontational, and damning way.
Under contract to write his autobiography, Justice is trying to pull together his life for the first time. While searching out a priest, Father Blackley, from his childhood, Benjamin enlists his best friend, Alexandra Templeton's fiancé Joe Soto - a journalist - to tell the hidden truth about this almost forgotten priest. When Joe is killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident and Justice starts to investigate the so-called accident, he finds himself in the midst of a case involving a child murder, a powerful and controversial cardinal, and elements of his own past. Again, Wilson sets the story in the frenetic, hurried world of Los Angeles, and the action is placed deep down into the heart of the City: Silver Lake, the cultural district of Little Tokyo, and the action and liveliness of West Hollywood or "Boys Town" are all set pieces.
Justice is forced to confront the duplicity and hypocrisy of the church, and Wilson through the novel raises some serious questions about religious pretense: How can gay priests support a church that demonizes gays? And how can gay priests, innocent though they may be of molestation, who know that children are suffering, do nothing to stop it? Benjamin feels "immersed in a perplexing sadness" as he prepares to write his autobiography, and in Blind Eye this sadness reaches a catalyst as he ruminates on his raging bouts with alcohol and other self-destructive habits; the baffling murders he's solved with Alexandra Templeton; his rape at the hands of a lethal ex-cop four years ago, and his subsequent sero-conversion to HIV. Blind Eye is a hard-edged thriller; a real page turner, and highly recommended.
Michael
Rating: 5
Summary: Fast and furious revelations about the church
Comment: Wilson's latest book is not for the weak stomached, nor for those who would "blindly" follow the Church's orders. There is a lot of hard boiled grit here. Much of it is about the gay society in West Los Angeles. To my surprise, I didn't find it much different from the other areas of LA. Wilson's writing is fast paced and shocking. He gives the church its due, and it's about time! This is a book to keep you reading right to the end. And don't forget to think about the multi-meaning of the title!
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Title: Dead Egotistical Morons: A Paul Turner Mystery by Mark Richard Zubro, Mark Zubro ISBN: 0312266820 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 02 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Dirt Peddler by Dorien Grey ISBN: 1879194724 Publisher: GLB Publishers Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Revision of Justice by John Morgan Wilson ISBN: 0553575333 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Wearing Black to the White Party by David Stukas ISBN: 0758200404 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Justice at Risk: A Benjamin Justice Mystery by John Morgan Wilson ISBN: 055357860X Publisher: Crime Line Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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