I’m mixed on this for a number of reasons, but my main pain point is that the ‘antagonist’ is a flamboyant gay man who violates David’s boundaries and while there IS a big apology scene about it, it still left a bad taste in my mouth. This isn’t the first time that Andrews has used a feminine gay man archetype as a villain. Idk. I didn’t like that whole club scene at all.

“A Clean Break” has a bad case of middle book syndrome, and I’ll be happy to get out of the city for the next and final one.