Moonlit Tours edition by Alistair McHarg Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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MOONLIT TOURS, my first novel, is a dark comedy concerning three cab drivers who provide jaded socialites with deluxe, safari-like excursions into the city's soft underbelly. It doesn't take long for their reckless scheme to trigger a long succession of catastrophic events they cannot control. Thick with eccentrics from all walks of life, this bare-knuckle satire casts an unblinking gaze across the entire social spectrum.
Moonlit Tours edition by Alistair McHarg Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Alistair McHarg gave us a jazzy tour of Bipolar Disorder in his memoir, "Invisible Driving." In "Moonlit Tours," his first novel, he takes us on another kind of tour, this time an excursion into the dregs of Philadephia's society, and inside the lives of a complex cast of characters whose lives ingeniously entwine.Day, Lester and Marshall, three cab drivers in a crumby cab company, are tired of their paltry profits from cab driving. They become consumed by an insidious greed that drives them to create the business called "Moonlit Tours," night time forays into the lives of the lowest level of humanity. We get totally caught up in the cabbies' lives as they dig themselves deeper and deeper into this venture. We are increasingly sympathetic to, and fearful for, the three cabbies as they become dangerously entranced with the evil they are showcasing. All three begin to feel the effects of this quasi-criminal business in different ways and feel a certain discomfort over the venture, but are unable to extricate themselves from it. Indeed we feel for all the characters in "Moonlit Tours" as McHarg uses empathy to embue even the most "evil" with vulnerability.
We, as readers, seem to take on some guilt, not wanting these tours to end. For we have become voyeurs, taking the moonlit tours alongside the wealthy passengers as they gawk at the lower level of Philadelphia's inner city pageant of poverty and perversions. But a lot more is going on. We are also gawking at the gawkers. As we take this multi-level tour of the seamy side of life, we wind up looking at the seamy side of ourselves, as entranced with evil as the customers and creators of the moonlit tours themselves. Quite an achievement for a first novel!!
"Moonlit Tours" is thought-provoking, entertaining, sensuous and replete with fascinating and well-delineated characters. Detective Elijah Graham, just one of the many colorful characters in the book, says that all people carry "the seeds of evil in their hearts." "For even honest folk may act like sinners unless they've had their customary dinners," words from Kurt Weil's "Threepenny Opera" come to mind. The parade of low-lifes without whom the tours would not exist are certainly hungry--as, in varying degrees, are Day, Lester and Marshall who dream up the tours. But what about the well-healed customers who plunk down big bucks to see a seedy side-show? And what about the reader?
My father used to take my family on similar rides through New York City's tougher neighborhoods "to see how other people lived," to educate us on the different segments of society. When I grew older, I really admired my father for the education he took the time to give us on these drives. I believed in his vision of embracing all of humanity.
Alistair McHarg educates us, too. He gives us a glimpse inside a dismal cab company and its driver's lives and into the depths of depravity and greed, and finally sticks us inside an amusement park's maze of mirrors to look deeply at what evil lurks within each of us alongside the singular beauty of our virtue.
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Moonlit Tours edition by Alistair McHarg Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Alistair McHarg treated us to a breathless ride in Invisible Driving, his personal and wickedly funny chronicle of living with manic depression. Now he has written a novel populated with sharply drawn characters ranging from society blue bloods to off-center cab drivers to drug dealers to murderers. The setting is Philadelphia, which the author knows intimately and portrays in fine detail, giving the novel a true sense of place. I loved Moonlit Tours and hope it is the first of many more novels to follow.
This book is a movie on the page. Brilliant!
When I read the last page of Moonlit Tours, I closed the book and thought, "Alistair has written a good narrative. But it wasn't a GREAT narrative". So what the H*LL made me miss my subway stop 3 days in a row? 3 days in a row I looked up from the book, like a panicked idiot, and realized, "shoot, there goes my stop!".
The best I way can describe this novel is that while it IS a novel, it is not REALLY a novel. It's the written equivalent of watching Bob Dylan (or any great songwriter) perform. The guitar patterns (in this case- the story/narrative) are simple. But the lyrics (in this case the characters) are not. And while it might be easy to pay attention to the music (the story), if you don't pay attention to the lyrics (the characters), you will not extract the impressive depth of this novel. I hope you're still with me here...
Well researched empirical data and profiles are fed to the us from a spoon of creative metaphors and detailed description that allow us to take a privileged look into who his characters are and what makes them `tick'. And these are complicated (sometimes frightening, sometimes heroic) people. But in the context of the narrative (our background music) Alistair deconstructs them- as their stories start to weave- in a fashion that the reader, while they might not empathize with all of them, can get as close to them as they will ever get. And in typical Alistair fashion, I found myself relating closely (like a verse of a well written song can make you raise your eyebrows) to a couple of his characters.
I don't wish to give away too much, but THAT is the real intelligence behind his story. YOU are taken on your own Moonlit Tour, but you don't really understand that until you close the book and ask yourself, `why the H*LL have I missed my subway stop 3 days in a row?'.
Alistair McHarg gave us a jazzy tour of Bipolar Disorder in his memoir, "Invisible Driving." In "Moonlit Tours," his first novel, he takes us on another kind of tour, this time an excursion into the dregs of Philadephia's society, and inside the lives of a complex cast of characters whose lives ingeniously entwine.
Day, Lester and Marshall, three cab drivers in a crumby cab company, are tired of their paltry profits from cab driving. They become consumed by an insidious greed that drives them to create the business called "Moonlit Tours," night time forays into the lives of the lowest level of humanity. We get totally caught up in the cabbies' lives as they dig themselves deeper and deeper into this venture. We are increasingly sympathetic to, and fearful for, the three cabbies as they become dangerously entranced with the evil they are showcasing. All three begin to feel the effects of this quasi-criminal business in different ways and feel a certain discomfort over the venture, but are unable to extricate themselves from it. Indeed we feel for all the characters in "Moonlit Tours" as McHarg uses empathy to embue even the most "evil" with vulnerability.
We, as readers, seem to take on some guilt, not wanting these tours to end. For we have become voyeurs, taking the moonlit tours alongside the wealthy passengers as they gawk at the lower level of Philadelphia's inner city pageant of poverty and perversions. But a lot more is going on. We are also gawking at the gawkers. As we take this multi-level tour of the seamy side of life, we wind up looking at the seamy side of ourselves, as entranced with evil as the customers and creators of the moonlit tours themselves. Quite an achievement for a first novel!!
"Moonlit Tours" is thought-provoking, entertaining, sensuous and replete with fascinating and well-delineated characters. Detective Elijah Graham, just one of the many colorful characters in the book, says that all people carry "the seeds of evil in their hearts." "For even honest folk may act like sinners unless they've had their customary dinners," words from Kurt Weil's "Threepenny Opera" come to mind. The parade of low-lifes without whom the tours would not exist are certainly hungry--as, in varying degrees, are Day, Lester and Marshall who dream up the tours. But what about the well-healed customers who plunk down big bucks to see a seedy side-show? And what about the reader?
My father used to take my family on similar rides through New York City's tougher neighborhoods "to see how other people lived," to educate us on the different segments of society. When I grew older, I really admired my father for the education he took the time to give us on these drives. I believed in his vision of embracing all of humanity.
Alistair McHarg educates us, too. He gives us a glimpse inside a dismal cab company and its driver's lives and into the depths of depravity and greed, and finally sticks us inside an amusement park's maze of mirrors to look deeply at what evil lurks within each of us alongside the singular beauty of our virtue.
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