Black Jack by Reijo Mäki

So I've got back to reading - now I'm starting to go through my bookshelf looking for books I need to read. First thing after Woken Furies I encountered was Mäki's Black Jack, a Vares book Chu had brought me when she visited us - in the spring. Dragon had read it back then, but me... never mind.

Anyway, the reason I for asking another Vares book was that I quite enjoyed the first one I read. I love a good detective novel, and Mäki writes witty, easy to read, clever little books - it's not War and Peace that's for sure, but it keeps my but glued to the seat while I'm reading it.

I wasn't sold though when I started reading the book. It starts out with some alternative youths foraging food out of dumpsters, and then moves on to a muslim terrorist with a Finnish wife and a child waiting for the call to come. Especially the terrorist plot bothered me throughout the book - just seems so unlikely - but I had to raise my hat in the end for some extremely nice plot runs. The reader knows exactly where the plot is going and who's cheating who, but Jussi Vares sees only the small details in front of him, and in fact the large scale events never become clear to him.

Despite the start and occasional loss of believability, I thought this was once again a very entertaining read.

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