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Title: Tanner on Ice: An Evan Tanner Novel (Tanner Mystery Series) by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0-451-19410-1 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tanner is back!
Comment: Evan Tanner is back. "Tanner on Ice: is Lawrence Block's first Evan Tanner novel in twenty-five years. (There are seven others, all out of print.) Tanner is the spy who never sleeps. He was placed in cold storage, hence Tanner on ice; a quarter of a century before this latest adventure takes place. Tanner's reentry into the 1990s finds him catching up with all things modern such as computers, the Internet and E-Mail. He does some quick research to catch up on world events he has missed. Tanner goes to Burma and stirs up the county's regime. Here he meets a beautiful Russian/French/Vietnamese woman who travels with him. The story is an interesting quick read but the characters are not as sold as we meet in the Matt Scudder series or Block's books about Bernie Rhodenbarr. I enjoyed it and will search out the other books in the series.
Rating: 4
Summary: A well crafted, enjoyable romp of a novel.
Comment: The return of Lawrence Block's Evan Tanner, sleepless free-lance adventurer and defender of lost causes, is a welcome sight for fans of Block's more light hearted novels. Block's first challenge is to transport his Korean war veteran into the 90's after a hiatus of some twenty-five years. Rather than ignore the passage of time, Block maintains series continuity by an amusing contrivance. Not to spoil the fun, suffice it to say that the title suggests the reason for Tanner's absence all these years. Re-ensconced in his Manhattan apartment with his now fully grown ward, Minna, it isn't long before Tanner sets out on a new globe trotting adventure, this time to destabilize the illegitimate SLORC regime in Burma. Of course, nothing goes even remotely as planned, and as soon as Tanner sets foot in Rangoon he finds himself immersed in a cacaphony of intrigues. Along the way, he is chased, framed for murder and drug smuggling, arrested, allowed (?) to escape and abetted by an alcoholic young woman as they make their way on foot across the Burmese interior disguised as Buddist monks. Though a fan of Block's work for many years, I think his better known Matt Scudder series lost most of its quirky edge as its lead character sobered up and settled down over the years. (In fairness, a new, supposedly "dark" Scudder novel is due to be released this autumn. We'll see.) But all of Block's ligher works, both the Tanner books and the popular Bernie Rhodenbarr (Burglar) mysteries, continue to hit the mark. Like the previous Tanner novels (soon to be republished), Tanner On Ice is a romp. It requires a robust suspension of disbelief, but readers who enjoy the caper sub-genre will be well rewarded.
Rating: 3
Summary: A bit implausible
Comment: This is the first of Block's books featuring Evan Tanner that I have read, probably because I hadn't discovered Block twenty-five years ago. Tanner is a very unusual protagonist although some of Block's other characters make strange heroes. Tanner has been frozen for twenty-five years when this story begins. He comes round in a hospital bed looking and feeling the same as he did when he was frozen by a foreign agent. So at sixty-three he has to catch up on a lot of history including the impeachment of Richard Nixon and the presidential terms of Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush senior, and Clinton. Evan spends some time catching up on the missed years, fortunately his adopted daughter Minna has kept his apartment and the only difference in it are due to new technology such as Video and DVD players, and a personal computer. It is some months later that Tanner receives a call from his former boss and an assignment is offered to, and accepted by, him. And a new adventure begins.
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Title: Tanner's Twelve Swingers: An Evan Tanner Mystery (Evan Tanner Mystery Series, 3) by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0451198336 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep: An Evan Tanner Novel by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0451194039 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Burglar Who Painted Like Mondrian: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0451180763 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Burglar in the Library: A Bernie Rhodenbarr Mystery by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0451407830 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams by Lawrence Block ISBN: 0451184262 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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