2007-01-06 The Petulant Prodigal Son Returns

The wife is still irritating although a little less of a nag than in "Watcher in the Pine". Carlos acts a bit like a petulant brat with his family and complains too much about familial obligations. He seems to find his family often a burden rather than something to which he should feel a duty towards.

I have a sucspicion that Carlos is becoming a Centrist, not a liberal of course, but nonetheless a Centrist. In "Death of a Nationalist" he killed someone in cold blood. The now married, Carlos in fatherhood, wouldn't dream of it.

Sad to say, but Rebecca Pawel seems to be giving in to some sort of PC urge and taming the Falangist from the first book. And the blurb on the cover should soon read "A Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon & Wife Investigation".

Just one more thing, the dust jacket on the hardcover has a blurred photo of Ms. Pawel. Coulnd't she give a better one??