Thoughts on Lucky Bastard

SG Browne has some very inventive ideas, and in this his latest novel - coming in April - the hero -Nick Monday- is a luck poacher, he shakes your hand and your good luck vanishes with him. Of course luck poachers don't advertise but they can be co-erced by either money or threats a twin sister who refuses to use her 'gift' . So Nick gets involved with Chinese mafia and a vengeful set of twins while maintaining the front of a PI business. The idea that luck both good and bad has to be processed out of the poacher before it can be given (mostly sold) on to someone else gives plenty of laughs at Starbucks' expense and I'll never look at a paper coffee cup quite the same way again. Quirky (you know me I love quirky) and fun.