Reviews for Smoke

The average rating for Smoke based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-07-21 00:00:00 Ruben Macias, Jr I noticed something really very interesting this time around, that maybe I noticed last time, but forgot. When you open the book and start to read, you get a very nice succinct profile of your main protagonist in just a few pages--it's one of Westlake's specialties. But then, when you finish the novel, hundreds of eventful, funny, suspenseful, riveting, incredible pages later, there's a wonderful little echo. Do this immediately upon finishing: flip the book back to the beginning and start it again. IMMEDIATELY. Get to the last page, read the last sentence, flip the book back to the front, open to the first page, and read it again. It's absolutely, positively, utterly amazing, extraordinary, and I dare say even magical. You're welcome. (And now, I miss him more than I did before.)

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-22 00:00:00 Loren Nacy Another late career Westlake caper. A thief breaks into a scientific laboratory owned by the evil tobacco companies. He gets caught, and injected with some formula, then takes some more, thinking it's an antidote. This turns him invisible somehow. He quickly begins stealing more valuable stuff. The tobacco company wants to get its hands on him, and so do a whole lot of other unscrupulous people. Not bad, but like a lot of Westlake's work at this time, seems out of date, even for the time.