WASHINGTON POST, Maureen Corrigan:
“I
wholeheartedly recommend Jerome Doolittle’s Bear Hug. . . The climax is
riveting--as full of tension as Christmas Eve shopping at Toys-R-Us. ”
NEWSDAY:
“Doolittle writes an extremely
entertaining tale about a national outrage, with plenty of action and
suspense, and even more righteous anger . . . Jerome Doolittle writes with
the misanthropic passion of someone who, despite everything, cares deeply
about people--regular working Janes and Joes anyway.”
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH:
“Jerome Doolittle has
another winner in Bear Hug, an often hilarious misadventure disguised as a
tale of political intrigue. Bethany is perfectly cast as semi-hero, an
apparent buffoon who manages to outmaneuver several sophisticated financial
wizards. Doolittle’s plot has devious twists, weird characters and a
wild, totally unpredictable finale.”
ALBANY TIMES UNION:
“Tom Bethany is a
disillusioned veteran of the CIA’s Air America operation in Laos,
simultaneously drawn to and repelled by politics, a man with a bleeding heart
and an iron hand.”
LOS ANGELES TIMES:
“Doolittle’s political
angers more strongly recall the mini-essays John D. MacDonald used to plant
in his Travis McGee stories. Who but Doolittle might cite Albert Jay Nock
(1873-1945) and his Memoirs of a Superfluous Man? ‘As against a
Jesus,’ Nock wrote, ‘the historic choice of the mass-man goes
regularly to some Barrabas.’ Nock thought about doing a humorous essay on
how to recognize the Dark Ages when you’re in them. ‘You’re in
them,’ Tom Bethany answers to himself, ‘when your country is hip-deep
in yellow ribbons and the only sensible voices left come from Russell Baker
and Doonesbury and Saturday Night Live.’”
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