As openings go, this is terrific: a handful of taut pages steamed with confusion, sex and dread. But no sooner does Charlie climb out of that ditch than this novel careens into another one and stays there, spinning its wheels for 150 pages of leaden back story before we arrive again at that fateful morning crash. The only Red threat here is the danger of running out of Red Bull.
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