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Blue Fire
- The Misadventures of Max Bowman, Book 2
- Narrated by: George Kuch
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
A missing comic book genius. An all-powerful hallucinogenic designer drug.
Max Bowman is haunted by both of them - and he just might lose his mind as a result.
When Max takes on the mission to find the long-lost creator of cult superhero Blue Fire, he ends up getting dosed with a chemical that upends his sanity just when he needs it the most. Now he's got to contend with zombies on the Upper East Side, a cult run by a clueless pawn, a hipster rapist who knows her way around a sword, a secret CIA spook program left over from the Cold War, and powerful old enemies who are out to destroy him - all while trying to keep his mind from crashing and burning for good.
Blue Fire's mantra in the old comic books used to be, "For good to be purged of evil...Blue Fire must endure." But now it's Max Bowman who must endure - and he's as far from a superhero as you can get.
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- Norma Miles
- 22-12-19
You can't change someone's fundamental nature.
The comic book Blue Fire was legebdary. For one year in 1966, it had burst onto the comic scene, with a super hero with a weird and rigid philosophy, "For good to be purged of evil...Blue Fire must endure." Then the author, and the comic itself, disappeared without trace. Now a film company wants to make the Blue Fire movie, so Max Bowman, one time fan, has been emp!oyed to find the author, missing, presumed dead for half a century, to enable the rights to be signed over. But this proves even more difficult than it had first appeared to be, and the comic hero is not the only blue fire that Max must encounter.
In so many ways this is an intensely personal story of a man, his lady love, a mad dog and trying, always failing, to get it right. And it is brutally psychotropic as it meanders through so many circumstances, Max, in the first lerson, attempting to make sense of what is happening, unable to stop it, or himself. Yes, all right, read the book. It's mad, sad and, at times, vio!ent. There's even talk of zombies in the park. All written with a sarcastic good humour. George Kuch, them master of narrating as if person to person, is once again excellent in delivering this emotionally invested first person story with perfect timing and depth, good intonation and individual character voicings. Another fine performance.
Those book is quite dizzying in its convoluted content. Well written and involving, it takes the reader on quite a ride, much of it very uncomfotable. But you have to love That Dog. This is the second in a series and stands alone well. But I must now find book one to read as well as any that come after. My thanks to the rights holder of Blue Fire, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy. I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it to all enjoying mystery thrillers with a quirky character at the helm. Or who just enjoys listening to Mr.George Kuch tell his tales.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- robert auld
- 02-06-17
Poor
I struggled to with this book and in the end gave up. There was a chapter in which the character was supposed to have had something slipped into his drink causing him to hallucinate, I got the impression that the writer must have been taking the same drug when he wrote this! The chapter seemed to have no bearing on the story and seemed to have just been inserted to fill up pages.
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