In Albie Marx, David Debin has created the hippest detective in contemporary crime fiction. The Big O continues Albie's singular foray against the bad guys of the 1990s, LA style, that began with Nice Guys Finish Dead.Albie is still writing his irreverent column for the alternative newspaper, Up Yours, and drinking at The Rock, a bar where the newest tune on the juke box was recorded in 1969. He's revealing some financial shenanigans to the enjoyment of his readers and to the deep consternation of some people who get very nasty when they're publicly embarrassed.There's a lot at stake here: powerful reputations, possible prison terms, Albie's chance of spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair, and, not incidentally, the proposition that there may be a connection between spiritual transcendence, the world's best orgasm, and the pennant chances of the Los Angeles Dodgers.Plot, character, and dialogue are smoothly joined in this hugely entertaining novel that asks the question: should a sixties radical enthusiastically sacrifice his principles for the chance to have an affair with an exquisitely beautiful woman he knows to be a liar, cheat, and possibly a murderess? The answer is - of course, he should. Read Less