Created by Doug J. Swanson
JACK FLIPPO was a Dallas assistant DA once upon a time, but thanks to one little “libido-driven mistake”, he now finds himself seriously underemployed, working as a low-rent (but affable) private peeper, prowling cheesy motels, armed with a tape recorder and a camera.
He’s not so much hard-boiled as hard-luck, with an astonishing propensity for being in the wrong place at the exact wrong-time, and making some truly unfortunate decisions on his way to getting out of it, although Dick Adler probably summed it up best: “Jack Flippo has what might be called an anti-Midas touch: everything he puts his hands on turns to crap.”
Well-written, with some favorable blurbs comparing him to people like Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard and… Carl Hiaasen, who actually blurbed him, perhaps recognizing a kindred spirit. And while it’s a refreshing change to see some P.I. openly admitting he can be lead around by his own dick, it’s even more fun watching him trip over it, in this entertaining five-book series by Doug J. Swanson.
UNDER OATH
- “Doug Swanson does Dallas the way Robert Parker does Boston — from the bottom up.”
— Carl Hiaasen
NOVELS
- Big Town (1994)Â |Â Buy this book
- Dreamboat (1995)Â |Â Buy this book
- 96 Tears (1996)Â |Â Buy this book
- Umbrella Man (1999) |Â Buy this book
- House of Corrections (2000) |Â Buy this book
