https://www.freedomfiction.com/2025/02/hotel-of-caliber-by-robert-duffy/ An eclectic mix of all flavours of genre fiction Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.freedomfiction.com/2025/02/hotel-of-caliber-by-robert-duffy/#comment-37598 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:26:52 +0000 https://www.freedomfiction.com/?p=3603#comment-37598 A really amusing defenestrative adventure led by two miscreant Soviet/Russian era thugs Roxtov and Korzov (I’m not certain I got their names right even now). The only criticism I have of the whole wonderful piece is the use of names which are so similar that I lost track of who did what; but, that’s minor. I thought the blunt descriptives were terrific, like when the author likened the cranium of an unfortunate victim to a coconut husk. Cynical observation bled into slapstick to wonderful effect. The thugs were the gang that couldn’t shoot straight and their haphazard thuggery could be likened to Monty Python on SNL. I loved this.

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