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FBI agent Bill Norton has been sent to Ketchikan, Alaska to track down his former boss, who’s vanished while investigating a heroin smuggling ring. Norton instantly suspects the smugglers are operating from inside the local fishing fleet. But six months and a string of declared “accidental” drownings have failed to turn up any clues.
Norton’s cold case heats up when the local radio station owner emerges, floating face-down at the docks, and a heart-stopping heiress to the halibut trade makes a maelstrom of trouble. The fact that Norton is well dressed and neatly shaven causes some of the local toughs to mistake the agent for a “chee-chalker” or newcomer—much to their regret.
This layered tale takes listeners to Ketchikan, Alaska, where FBI agent Bill Norton finds himself in the middle of a heated investigation involving a group of heroin smugglers. The recording production is the highest quality, filled with realistic sound effects and a powerful musical score. But the ensemble cast lacks the spark of excitement usually found in Galaxy Audio's productions. Though Hubbard's prose is terse and witty as always, the performances are flat and uninspired. Perhaps this particular story lacked the command to captivate the cast's full energy. A Galaxy paperback. (Dec.)
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Elizabeth Walters
reviewed The Chee-Chalker on January 17, 2020
The Chee-Chalker
OK. I know the author started a cult. I even heard he started it as joke, but never mind.
I could not resist the cover and, who knows? Even cult leaders could be good writers.
Except in Hubbard's case, no.
I mean, he's a good writer, but the substance of his writing isn't very interesting.
Sure, he's got the hard-boiled detective, the sexy, bad girl who the FBI agent can't decide whether he should slap around or fall in love with, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and some guy referred to as a Chee Chalker got murdered, which is why aforementioned FBI guy is in Alaska (did I mention this takes place in Alaska?).
There's interesting bits. The Alaskan culture of the 1930s, the glossary in the back is helpful so we know that Chee Chalker is a newcomer to Alaska. Siwash is an Alaskan Native American and so is Tlinget, at least the ones living on the coast.
The plot just didn't go anywhere. It was interrupted by too many drunken brawls, and too few clues to propel the story forward.
However, on the bright side, 'eye roll' there's plenty of Hubbard to be found everywhere. If I had bothered to look him up at my local library I would have discovered they had hundreds of his stuff on e-book. I wouldn't have even had to leave my house to find out he's not my cup of tea, much less waste three dollars (hey, three dollars is three dollars!) at my local Books A Million.
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