The Last Bad Job by Colin Dodds

Book 8 started, unfinished

The Last Bad Job by Colin Dodds 

Published by Author, 2012

This was presented as the story of a journalist doing onsite research for a story on a potentially suicidal cult.  He’s never fully identified – at least not in the part I read – but the various members of the cult are.  They are not, however, fleshed out as real people.  They felt like constructs designed to fill simply occupy a portion of the story and little else.  Well, that and have sex with each other.

The first sentence of the story is crude.  The first chapter has a suicide no one seems to care about.  But, that’s a lead in to how the next chapters read; things happen, people are crude and there’s nothing behind it.

Now, in the last book I read, there was a certain banal attitude that made the entire book work; in this one there is also a feeling that the shocking is commonplace but it just doesn’t work. 

I couldn’t read more than about 12% of the book.  I didn’t care about anyone in it or what was going to happen.  Other than the suicide, nothing much had, but I wasn’t willing to wait around to see what eventually would.