Fletcher, the smart ass newspaper journalist who is now a man of leisure due to the fortune he acquired in book #2. So who do I reach for? Fletch is my man.Irwin R. So when lightening hit and destroyed my modem/router, and I spent five hours just on the phone trying to resolve the problem, I needed a book that would lighten my mood and lower my blood pressure and stress level.įor me, something nonsensical or funny or light was the ticket. Internet access has become in some respects, imperative for many of us. I have read most of the series and find them upon revisiting as fun as before.Īll of us at one time or another have gone through the stress of a broken modem, router, computer tower, laptop and/or a million other things that can occur to prevent access to the internet. McDonald does have a gift for dialogue he makes you smile or laugh out loud. It is always nice to read about smart and witty people, and Mr. Fletch is a rebel against anything or anybody with authority, and he gets away with it again. He creates once again a situation that is truly bizarre and when it is finished everything has been solved to satisfaction. McDonald lets Fletch bring his unconventional game of detecting for the third time and he does so quite well. Which is not the case with the CIA, the widow March, Freddie, the guy from the IRS, the Navy and his former editor who wants his scoop. The convention is filled with self absorbed people who think that Fletch is either crazy of or not worth their time. However before Fletch arrives the festivities have already started with the death of Walter March, former employer of I.M. And the first person he meets is his favorite alias only she is far better looking and has clean knees. they were already at it)Īs he has no choice, unless paying back taxation he travels back to the good ole US of A to serve his country.

(this being 1978 means way before Bush Jr. When the story starts Fletch returns from a beach in Italy were he did enjoy some morning exersizes with the wife of his neighbor, which is the cost of his neighbor sleeping in late.įletch finds himself blackmailed into doing a job for the US secret organisation which involves him planting listening devices on other journalists at a weekend conference of the big names of journalism. Fletch is once again let loose on a world that does deserve his kind of craziness, but in a wholesome way I mean! And so starts the story of thirdly written Fletch novel in which I.M.

Fletch's fortune