It’s the mid-1980s and the cold war hasn’t thawed. The Library, a super-secret U.S. espionage agency is keeping an eye on the Russians and everybody else. A dozen elite intelligence experts relentlessly sift out classified information from everywhere. They know all the secrets except for one – which of the librarians is a traitor. It’s up to Walt Coolidge, a librarian with a Sherlockian gift for analyzing people’s garbage, to uncover the mole and, if he fails, it could lead to nuclear Armageddon.
A sly, implausible, yet oddly controlled suspense-comedy debut...smart dialogue, inventively convincing technology, likably cynical people.
Dunn's Conundrum is a tangled, blackly comedic thriller about espionage and the dangers of information.
Tough, funny, quirky, bawdy, suspenseful. I defy any reader to guess where this story is going, guess how it is going to get there, or put it down before it gets there. The writing is smooth and professional, the observations of human foibles mature and often very funny. I predict a long, hearty life for this novel and for practically anything this man cares to write
Deftly plottied and smoothly written, Conundrum is several cuts above the norm
There is no rolling thunder in Stan Lee's prose, no lyrical flights of pretty conceits. The author simply tells a straightforward story and does it delightfully