100 Horse

Will Molson is a Toronto-based business consultant and accountant.

Set primarily in Vancouver, this work visits the murky netherworld of
criminal narcotic importation and distribution, where the agents of good
(the police) and evil (the bad guys) become confounded and confused. The
reader can become pretty confused, too, because the protagonist and one
of his main opponents have names so similar as to be virtually
interchangeable. Characterization is draped over an Oedipal framework:
the principal actor from the outset suspects his father of being a bad
person, and by the conclusion of the oeuvre it seems pretty likely that
he probably is. Ho-hum.

The gentle reader may reasonably expect to be entertained or at least
educated by such a novel. Failing that, fleeting artifice, perhaps a bit
of character development, or—if nothing else can be done—good sex
must be served up. Alas, we are disappointed on all counts here.
Soren’s talents are, we gather, usually displayed on the screen, which
is probably a more suitable venue for his good sense of pacing than the
printed page.