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(More customer reviews)Very much in the tradition of the old-fashioned mystery (which includes John D. MacDonald and his Travis McGee series), Diamond Head is the first of the John Caine mysteries, all set in parts of Hawaii that the tourists do not see, and featuring a repeating cast of characters. Caine is a former Navy SEAL, now living on a sailboat outside Pearl Harbor and working as a private investigator, a haole (outsider) in the multicultural milieu of Hawaii. Macho in the extreme, he is the consummate hero, willing to perform superhuman deeds to protect someone's honor, fulfill an obligation, and right the wrongs of the world. (No one ever said he had to be realistic.)
When his old commanding officer tells him that the daughter of a respected admiral has been found murdered, Caine finds himself investigating the island's big business of pornography and the disappearances of the young women who are its stars. Knief's dialogue is terse and unadorned as Caine begins his fast-paced investigation into the Hawaiian counterculture, using all his resources, some of them illegal, and his considerable martial arts expertise to get answers. The bad guys are really bad, and Caine is larger than life, a huge hero of almost epic proportions. Being handcuffed, thrown overboard by crooks, shot, and attacked by sharks ten miles from shore, barely slows Caine down in his pursuit of justice. Knief is not trying to blaze new trails in detective fiction here, and that is part of the novel's nostalgic appeal. His hero is from the old tradition in which men were men, crooks were evil personified, and justice could be found at the end of a fist. Mary Whipple
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