From Publishers Weekly
Friedman's novels ( A Case of Lone Star ) are presumably an acquired taste. His fourth once again features as central character a country singer turned amateur detective, named after himself; other characters in the story are also modeled after people Friedman knows. The style is marked by constant wisecracks, strained metaphors and decidedly offbeat slang. In Cleveland for the funeral of an old Peace Corps buddy, John Morgan, Kinky is nonplussed to note that the body in the casket is in fact not that of his former friend. He is further perplexed when none of the 300 guests, including Morgan's parents, seem to notice. Back home in New York's Greenwich Village, he hears from a woman who says she is Morgan's fiancee, and soon Friedman finds himself the target of an unrepentant band of Nazis and otherwise entangled in events beyond his ken. All is eventually resolved (sort of), but nothing is quite as funny as intended. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
Series narrator Kinky Friedman--eccentric, cigar-smoking, not noticeably employed--returns as a Greenwich Village amateur investigator ( When the Cat's Away ). While attending a former co-worker's funeral, Kinky cannot help but notice that the casket inhabitant is not Peace Corps buddy John. Back in New York, Kinky and vaguely disreputable friends (Rambam, Ratso, et al.) rescue John's fiancee from neo-Nazis, scuffle with skinheads, and unravel the puzzle connecting Borneo with Austrian Nazis. Jaunty style, lively wit, and many diversions complete this amusing exercise.Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Philadelphia Inquirer
"He's got a smirking sense of humor, no fear of puns, and a special kind of wisdom..."


Robert B. Parker
"The book, like the author, is funny, clear-eyed, sometimes touching, and very often dead on the money."


New York Daily News
"From his songs to his books, Kinky is enough to curl your hair!"


Book Description
This is the fourth of Kinky Friedman's internationally acclaimed mystery novels, republished with a new introduction by the author. Assisted by his Village Irregulars - Ratso, McGovern and real-life P.I. Steven Rambam - Kinky is on the trail of a missing person, a Nazi conspiracy and a mysterious white tiger with blue eyes.


From the Author
"By the time I was finishing Frequent Flyer, the fourth book in the series, it was 1988 and I'd been living at our family ranch in Texas for three or four years. All the while, my vision of New York had been growing more and more vivid in my mind. Indeed, it was almost like living in New York without having to worry about parking. It seemed that the further that I got away from the city, and the more serene and bucolic my environment, the more powerful New York became in my imagination..."


About the Author
Kinky Friedman, former leader of the band The Texas Jewboys, lives on a ranch in the Texas Hill Country with six dogs, two cats and one armadillo. He is the author of fourteen and a half internationally acclaimed mystery novels and nine country music albums. These days, he travels the world, singing the songs that made him infamous and reading from the books that made him respectable.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Kinky Friedman--the New York-based, wisecracking, hard-living, cigar-smoking, reluctant sleuth--stumbles upon adventure once again in his search for an apparently dead friend from the past.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Friedman's novels ( A Case of Lone Star ) are presumably an acquired taste. His fourth once again features as central character a country singer turned amateur detective, named after himself; other characters in the story are also modeled after people Friedman knows. The style is marked by constant wisecracks, strained metaphors and decidedly offbeat slang. In Cleveland for the funeral of an old Peace Corps buddy, John Morgan, Kinky is nonplussed to note that the body in the casket is in fact not that of his former friend. He is further perplexed when none of the 300 guests, including Morgan's parents, seem to notice. Back home in New York's Greenwich Village, he hears from a woman who says she is Morgan's fiancee, and soon Friedman finds himself the target of an unrepentant band of Nazis and otherwise entangled in events beyond his ken. All is eventually resolved (sort of), but nothing is quite as funny as intended. (Aug.)

Library Journal