Hardcover
Published Dec. 22, 2020 by Hachette Books.
Yet another winner from Joe Ide, bouncing all around LA and the topics covered, gangs, multiple personalities, arms dealers and all the rest. Starts out with the standards you're used to with IQ, and then dives and swoops into all sorts of new ground, with twists and turns until the very last page.
These books have been outstanding, but just as in a TV series it must be very difficult to maintain consistent quality over time. This most recent novel has a plot that revolves around a character with multiple personalities. This phenomenon is so rare that some authorities believe that it doesn't actually occur, and my credulity maintenance facility was strained to breaking by this cheap gimmick. Furthermore, the snappy dialogue of previous IQ encounters seems lacking. The series may have jumped the shark, and I had to quit early to cut my loses.
