Fletch, investigative reporter extraordinaire, can’t be bothered with deadlines or expense-account budgets when it comes to getting his story.Working undercover at the beach to dig up a drug-trafficking scheme for his next blockbuster piece, Fletch is invited into a much deeper narrative. Alan Stanwyk, CEO of Collins Aviation and all-around family man, mistakes the reporter for a strung-out … strung-out vagabond and asks him for a favor: kill him and escape to Brazil with $50,000. Intrigued, Fletch can’t help but dig into this suspicious deal he’s being offered.
Dodging the shady beach police as his case begins to break open, and with his temperamental editor Clara pushing for his article, he soon discovers that Stanwyk has a lot to hide and this plan is anything but what it seems.
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Fletch rules. Rarely have I come across a character as flat out funny as Fletch. But also clever of course, Fast paced, funny and a nicely twisty plot make a great read. In fact, read all the Fletch stories. None let up.
I only got a free sample but loved what I read
Read this series a number of years ago…just as good now as it was then.
I love all the FLETCH books – wish there were more.
Love love Flech. He really took us for a ride in this one. Fun to read. Clever without hitting us over the head.
Quite a departure from the movie (the first one) and some things that they eliminated from the movie are for the better. The ending was surprising and final. Fletch is less redeemable in the book. It was an engaging and quick read and the way Fletch talks to his bosses, his friends, his ex-wives, etc are entertaining but kinda in a “yikes, what an …
Fun read——very entertaining and clever story
Read the first 50 pages. Not my type of read.
Writing was well paced.
Fun read
Enjoyed reading. I wish the movie was as good.
The toughest, leanest horse to hit the literary racetrack since James M. Cain, and it’s sheer pleasure to watch him make his run.
The first novel in a good series.