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Here are a bunch of books John Harris has read recently and what he thinks about them.

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tin roof blowdown.jpgAfter Hurricane Katrina slams New Orleans into the middle ages, New Iberia detective Dave Robicheaux is despatched to help maintain law and order in the Big Easy. The discovery that his friend, Jude LeBlanc, a Catholic priest with cancer and a heroin habit, is missing in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward leads Dave into a labyrinthine mystery that involves black looters ripping off gems, drugs and counterfeit cash from the mansion of criminal kingpin Sidney Kovick, white vigilantes dispensing their own justice and a mysterious character who casts a menacing shadow over the streets of New Iberia. Coincidentally, the main suspect in the shooting, Otis Baylor, is the rather of a teenage girl who was raped by three of the four looters two years earlier.

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When a 25-year-old wine-making commune of ex-hippies in California is threatened by a planned hydroelectric dam, its charismatic leader Ricky “Priest” Granger concocts a plot to steal a seismic vibrator, along with detailed seismological data, in order to threaten the Governor of California with a cataclysmic earthquake. Only crack FBI agent Judy Maddox, a half-Vietnamese agent in her mid 30s, has the intellect and intuition to counter the threat posed by the eco-terrorist group that calls itself The Hammer of Eden.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?In a post-apocalyptic world, Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter for the San Francisco Police Department. His job is to retire “replicants” – biological robots who are identical to humans except in their ability to feel empathy. Deckard is also captivated by the “holy grail” of the decimated planet – to own a real biological animal. When a new class of Nexus-6 replicants escapes from Mars to Earth, Deckard is given the job of “retiring” them – an assignment in which he is assisted by an attractive Nexus-6 called Rachael Rosen. With a bored wife at home, Deckard is attracted to the vivacious Rachael at the same time as he seeks to destroy her replicant “twin”.