Metzger’s Dog is one of my all time favorites. I have read all the Jane Whitefield stories and have enjoyed them all. I haven’t even gotten that far! I keep meaning to pick it up, but still haven’t. I also hope some of you are doing better than me. There are seven more in the Jane Whitefield series.
That was in 1996, and it is still there, some 23 years later. I put the paperback edition of this on my TBR pile as soon as I bought it.
Perry seldom writes the same book twice, but he always writes a good one, and this one is very good.ħ Responses to “Reviewed by Barry Gardner: THOMAS PERRY – Vanishing Act.” There’s a good deal of Native American lore and history interspersed in the third person narrative, about the verisimilitude of which I have no idea at all, but which certainly enhances the story and fits in well with it. Jane Whitefield is one of his more memorable leads, and the story is a fast-moving thriller that will drag you right along. Two things you can depend on with Perry: he’ll have a strong, somewhat off-beat central character, or characters, and he’ll tell a hell of a good story. A different road lies ahead, with a different destination. There are people after him, all right, as Jane finds as they set out on the road to anonymity, but he’s not exactly what he seems. He says he’s an ex-cop, that he’s been framed, and that there’s a contract out on him. Jane puts them on the road to not being found, and teaches them how to walk it.Īnd then one day a man named John Felker shows up at her door. Not the kind of guide you may be thinking of, though she guides people who need to be lost, people who have other people looking for them. She lives in upstate New York, and is a guide. Jane Whitefield is a young woman who is part Seneca by blood, all by heritage. I’m always glad to see a new one by Perry. The Butcher’s Boy is one of my favorite books, with Metzger’s Dog not far behind.
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