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Imagine, if you will, that dinosaurs never became extinct, but managed to control their evolution so that they have become smaller, and are now living, hidden, among human beings, wearing elaborate humanoid disguises so that no human knows that they exist. Any person that does find out, is made instantly extinct. Vincent Rubio, a velociraptor, is a private investigator, working out of a shabby office in LA. When the story opens, he is observing a cheating husband and taking photos through a bedroom window, when he hears his car being towed away. To make matters worse, he finds out that for 3 weeks he was following the wrong Iguanadon. Rubio's partner had been killed 9 months earlier in an auto accident while he was investigating the murder of carnotaur Raymond McBride in New York. Vincent's been depressed since then, not working very efficiently. He's become strongly addicted to basil, which he buys on the dino black market, and just waiting for the end, when an insurance agency, for whom he does occasional work, calls him to try and find out if the fire at the Evolution Club, in which the Donovan Burke the owner, (another raptor) has been horribly burned, was arson. Rubio goes to New York and meets McBride's widow. He finds out that McBride was having an affair with a human, which Vincent finds disgusting. The dinosaur disguise is so perfect, that this can happen but no right thinking dino touches a human if possible. Each dinosaur has a distinctive odor. Humans have no pleasant smell. This is a perfect hard boiled detective novel but instead of Spade and Archer we have Rubio and Watson, a pair of dinosaurs in human guise, What is it about South Florida that causes that part of the country to produce seriously demented authors, including, but not limited to Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, and now Eric Garcia.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, November 2002
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