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Why wait for a vacation -- although here in the Northeast, I suspect we
 will be having many mini-vacation snow days this year...
Donald Westlake's latest comedy-mystery, *Smoke*, is the perfect
antidote to a bad week at school: 'laugh-out-loud' funny, 'now-what'
 suspenseful, and even "big issue" thought-provoking.  It's about a
thief who has become invisible -- a quality which could be an asset
in his line of work, but which  also creates additional, unforeseen
(pardon the pun) problems for him.  Westlake has a truly inventive
 mind; as you read, you find yourself wondering how he manages to
 think up these twists!  Along the way, he also manages to take
potshots at various aspects of contemporary culture, especially
corporate funding of "medical" research.
Actually, all of Westlake's books are comedy-mysteries, and all
contain some kind of scathing commentary on an aspect of contemporary
 society, but I do think this is the best one he's ever written.
Alice H. Yucht
yucht@zodiac.rutgers.edu


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