THE PERFECT FAKE

Paul Garcia revels in the thuggishness of Parker's Eastern European hit man, the whininess of her Florida millionaires, and the earnest, romantic nature of her hero, Tom Fairchild, a young artist on probation. He is thrust into forging a five-hundred-year-old priceless map destroyed by the hit man and urgently needed by one of the millionaires to complete a real estate deal and save his life. Fairchild's travels from Miami to England to Italy lend further opportunities for a variety of accents, and Garcia does not disappoint. The vocal distinctions are theatrical, lending drama to a novel of international intrigue--unconnected to Parker's popular cops-and- lawyers series. D.P.D. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 07/ JAN 08]