"....And then I'd like to thank Jesus, the world's first great Jewish troublemaker. I'm glad to hear your book's doing well, Jesus. By the way, who's your agent? "Okay, these acknowledgements are starting to cut into my cocktail hour. I've got to close now anyway. Things have been a little rough for me lately. I lost my wife last month. "In a poker game." * Before the book has even begun, you taste something of the special flavour of Kinky Friedman in the acknowledgements quoted above. It's a flavour he has sustained now through over a dozen novels, without any sign that it will lose any of its punch and ...  Read the complete review