[The Scarecrow]
Year:
2009
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Allen and Unwin
City:
Sydney
Year of publication:
2009
Pages:
419
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
Violent content:
Vulgar or obscene language:
Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators

Jack McEvoy, writer for the L.A. Times and Rachel Walling of the FBI are together again. Remember them from "The Poet"?
This book, mostly narrated by Jack, has a little too much stuff about Jack as a reporter and the way the print medium is going down the tubes in 2009. He's been canned by the paper, and has to retrain a young woman as his replacement.
One of the villains makes contact with McEvoy, a device we've seen before. Jack wants to get embedded in the FBI investigation, but they're not having any of that nonsense which of course isolates him and forces him to go it alone with Rachel's assistance.
Jack beds Rachel Walling twice. Not much detail.
Author: C F, Australia
Update on: Sep 2023