Fletch.

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Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch. (1979, Hamlyn)

English language

Published June 10, 1979 by Hamlyn.

ISBN:
978-0-09-919140-7
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4 stars (11 reviews)

FletchHe's an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he's living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. FletchHe's taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesn't appreciate his style. Or the expense account items he's racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office.FletchSo when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, he's intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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This hasn't aged well

1 star

I vaguely remember this as being a watchable movie starring Chevy Chase as Fletch. This is the book on which the film was based and I didn't finish it. I had two problems with it. Firstly it was dialogue rich without occasional reminders of which character was speaking but the main problems was that the author makes no attempt to give you any idea what Fletch is thinking and you're left with a thin character and, and this is important, an amoral one.

Fletch is a reporter posing as a drug addict for a story he's researching and he's sleeping with a young woman who really is a junkie and is making money by doing tricks ... and she's 15. At no point is there any suggestion that Fletch feels any need to do anything to resolve this: it's just colour.

The book was written in 1974 and it's out …

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