The great leader

The complete title of this novel is “The Great Leader: A Faux Mystery” and I probably should have realized the FAUX really does mean false in this book's case. I kept wanting the mystery plot to take off, but the story kept unraveling as the retired detective narrator went off on tangents and rants and macho-man ruminations about his life. While I did find myself interested in some of the observations Det. Sunderson made about life, I was stunned by his absolutely crude and raunchy descriptions of his sexual thoughts and adventures. Since one of his major turn-ons was a 16 y.o. girl (reminiscent of Lisbeth Salander in the Dragon Tatoo series), the pedophilic nature of these musings were just a little too much to me.
The resolution of the mystery was pretty anti-climatic and I finished the novel wishing the author had stuck with the mystery.

Truly a faux mystery.

I like the way Harrison writes, but not this particular story, if you want to call it that. There's really not much plot.