SECRET DEAD MEN starts well enough with a creative opening narrative and then an intriguing supernatural/urban fantasy twist leading into the main thrust of the plot. Swierczynski does a deft job with the first 3/4 of the novel merging a standard procedural/detective story with elements of pulp ...
So, what do you do when your boss drags you to work on a Saturday morning and announces that you have two choices -- drink poison and die OR let him shoot you in the head (and die). Which do you pick?I chose to read SEVERANCE PACKAGE purely based on the fact that I read Swierczynski's THE BLONDE ...