Flynn’s World by Gregory McDonald
Flynn, a spinoff character from the Fletch novels is back in a heavy-handed thinly-veiled dissertation of the author’s philosophical beliefs, full of straw men and deus ex machina.
I’m not saying I disagree with what he’s trying to say but I almost want to with the way this light mystery novel shoves it down my throat.
Best I can figure, McDonald wanted to add an extra bedroom on his ranch or something, so he whipped this sucker out. By far the weakest of any novel he’s ever written.
But also… short.
I used to read all of Gregory Macdonald’s books (did we ever talk about his humor novel about the male advice columnist)? At some point — Carioca Fletch, maybe? — he seemed to go seriously off the rails, though.