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Moondogs (2011) by Alexander Yates
Good Reads meta-data is 339 pages, rated 3.68 by 424 litizens.
Genre: krimi; Species: Magic unrealism.
DNA: Filipino.
Verdict: I warmed to it, slowly.
Tagline: Can’t tell the players without a scorecard!
Estranged son flies to Manila at the invitation of his father, who is absent when he arrives. He falls in with some of his father’s drinking buddies. That is one thread.
We already know that father has been kidnapped by a pair of incompetent and spontaneous lowlifes with the aim of selling him to some mad and bad Muslims who specialise in decapitations. Meanwhile, father is locked in a room. The Imam they approach tries to stop their crazy plot and reports them to the police. That is thread two.
Thread three is a Philippine Army solider with uncanny, preternatural marksmanship who is recruited by the Dirtiest Harry of them all for a special police coven consisting of bruhos, that is, witches, of which this soldier is one whether he knows it or not; hence his ability. This is the magic part of the realism.
Thread four is Monique at the American embassy who deals with Americans who get into trouble in the Philippines, and there are a lot of them: drunks, pederasts, and kidnapees. Her ‘trailing spouse’ (officia
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