I love fletch, and I love Jack now, too. ( )

FLetch discovers he has a son, is he a criminal or?

The Fletch comic mystery series has had it humorous highlights over the years, based on the life of journalist and one time political media adviser, but here McDonald passes the baton to Fletch's son, who naturally is named "Jack", to continue on the now uninspiring Fletch series.

Besides Fletch meeting his long lost son, "Son of Fletch" covers their infiltration of a white supremacist group in Alabama, who, as you can imagine, are depicted as the dregs of humanity (as they should), a reflection back to an earlier Fletch adventure in Brazil, and the mystery of who exactly this young man claiming to be Fletch's son actually is.

"Son of Fletch" is only for the McDonald completests amongst you. ( )

From Publishers Weekly Despite a couple of shaky plot turns, readers will gladly succumb to McDonald's laconic wit and smooth pacing in this 10th entry in the Fletch series. Ex-reporter Irwin Maurice Fletcher--just Fletch, please--is in semi-retirement in Tennessee where, after three marriages, he has settled in with Carrie, a plainspoken "Southern country woman." One dark and stormy night (yes!), Fletch's heretofore unknown son, Jack, arrives, accompanied by a South African killer, a kidnapper and a drug dealer who escaped from federal prison with him. Beguiled by 20-ish Jack, Fletch is soon effectively in charge of getting the escapees away from the cops and in to Alabama where a group of white supremacists have encamped to await their leader, the killer. Although in looks and manners, Jack surely has not fallen far from the paternal tree, Fletch still seeks proof of their relationship, but is soon more worried about the dangers awaiting the young man in the camp. Fletch wins the day in great style as the supremacists, cartoonish screw-ups barely capable of organizing a beer blast, mainly self-destruct. Fletch, Carrie and the enterprising Jack, however, are all fully dimensioned characters who rate readers' attention and applause. Mystery Guild alternate.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Back for his first adventure since Fletch Too (1986), the irrepressible reporter/detective comes home with his latest squeeze, Carrie, to his Tennessee homestead to find four escaped convicts in residence--one of them identifying himself as Jack Fletch Faoni, Fletch's long-lost--well, unsuspected--son. It would be too easy to just turn these guys in, so Fletch gives Jack a loaded gun, plays along with him, and lands up to his neck in an Alabama camp of white- supremacist crazies. But wait! Is Jack really Fletch, Jr.? A few of Fletch's trademark phone calls reveal that no Jack Faoni has ever served time in the federal pen, and that Crystal Faoni's son is spending the summer in Greece.... More boisterous high jinks than mystery, like a class reunion of stand-up guys resting on their r‚sum‚s. Even so: welcome back, Fletch. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. ( )

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