Finished: Block's "Tanner's Twelve Swingers"

Lawrence Block's Evan Tanner series is better than his Chip Harrison series. His Burglar series is better than both and his Matthew Scudder series is best of all.

"Tanner's Twelve Swingers" is obviously from the Evan Tanner series. The "swingers" are not what you'd expect them to be from Block's books of that era (1967), but actually are gymnasts. It was entertaining.

Lawrence Block's third book in his hilarious Tanner series is back...And this time the intrepid spy is up to his neck in a dozen leggy beauties and a life-and-death smuggling assignment out of the cold corners of Russia. 

A couple quotes I liked:

"Brains will get you guns, but guns will never get you brains."

"One has to do idiot things from time to time, if only to assure oneself that one is a human being and not a robot."

From Nietzsche: "The true maturity of man is to recapture the seriousness one had as a child at play."

I gave the book a 6 on the 10-point Haugenometer. Goodreaders gave it a 3.7 of 5.

On to the next one in the series ...