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Diamond Dogs
Alan Watt. Little, Brown & Company: 2001 (paperback). ISBN: 0316925810. 256 pages.
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This first novel is a first novel. It has some flaws and disappointments. But
that's not to say that it isn't a zinger of a debut, by a novelist whose career we will follow with eager anticipation. We
haven't read anything quite like this one, and you probably haven't either. Watt's unlikely hero is seventeen-year-old Neil
Garvin, a popular high-school football star living in a small town outside of Las Vegas. Neil's father is the town sheriff,
a desperately charismatic and manipulative man whose passion for Neil Diamond appears to outweigh his commitment to the
parade of young Vegas hotties he acquires for companionship. Neil's father would do anything to ensure his son's successful
football career, including, if necessary, covering up the fact that his son might be responsible for the death of a fellow
student. As Neil attempts to come to terms with himself, his father, and a promising future that just hit a big bump in the
road, we share in the tortured sense of a small town boy who meant to make good. Watt richly deserves the label "master of
suspense," for his creation of this fast-paced, almost unbearably tense psychological thriller. Couldn't eat, drink, or
sleep till we finished it.
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