Jim Brennan's Reviews > I HEARD YOU PAINT COWBOYS

Chris Bauer does it again. He begins with a flamethrower setting a mummer string band ablaze and never lets up. It would be hard to find a more memorable protagonist than Counsel Fungo, female bounty hunter, retired state police officer, with two attack canines and Tourette’s syndrome. And her supporting cast is just as memorable. Bauer weaves together a thriller from the Second Amendment rights lobby, a gun control organization, professional art forgers, vigilantes, a bail bondswoman, an unstable transexual ex-con, and a presidential candidate who put him behind bars as a prosecutor and takes the reader on a wild ride through downtown Scranton in the Pocono Mountains. An author with the guts to take on the gun lobby has to be from Philly.