![]() Ruff's expert characterization of Jane and agile manipulation of layers of reality ground the novel and make it more than just a Philip K. At times the twists are enough to give the reader whiplash. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, nothing is quite what it seems as Jane's initial story of tracking a serial killer janitor comes under scrutiny and the initial facts about her brother, Phil, get turned on their head. Crazy or sane, Jane is still a murderer, whether she used a weapon like the NC gun, which kills someone using Natural Causes, or more prosaic weaponry. Bad Monkeys, like Fool on the Hill and Set This House in Order, has psychological themes, but where Fool and House are more serious in their approach, Monkeys is more of a romp, and less touching for lack of a better term. She cracks wise and doesn’t quite fit into. The protagonist, Jane Charlotte, tells her life story to a psychiatrist. ), almost everyone is a bad monkey of some kind, but only Jane Charlotte is a self-confessed member of “The Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons.” Or is she? In a series of sessions with a psychotherapist in the Las Vegas County Jail “nut wing,” Jane tells the story of her early life in San Francisco and her assimilation into the “Bad Monkeys,” an organization devoted to fighting evil. Bad Monkeys is something of a science-fiction Catcher in the Rye. ![]() In this clever SF thriller from Ruff ( Fool on the Hill ![]()
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