Spider Mountain

The plot is not totally insane, but it just doesn't hold together very well. The underlying device driving the story is that the heroes have to get evidence. But they don't even do what a six-year-old would know to do, like bring a camera!!!!!! What kind of private detective doesn't have a camera???......more

Audiobook read by Dick Hill. It passed the time and almost descended to the one-star threshhold, when the plot becomes too ridiculous to continue. Dick Hill 's reading is the redeeming facotr, even tho he has a habit of running out of breath as a key sentence ends and the words are lost in road nois......more

Having finished The Edge of Honor prior to this one, I found myself in a different realm with Spider Mountain. Spider Mountain was more in line with the type of novels I enjoy. It was a good "bang, bang, shoot em' up, fast paced read. Plenty of action, good characters, a realistic protagonist and a......more

"Spider Mountain", second in the Cam Richter series, is a big improvement on its predecessor - it's a linear plot with little or no deviation and enough happening to keep you happily reading. Two years have passed since the events of "The Cat Dancer" but Park Ranger Mary Ellen Goode is still haunted......more

This second book was definitely better than the first, but could still use some polishing overall. I still found it to have a lot of editing mistakes, though not as many as the first book. I definitely liked the characters in this book a lot more than those in the the first, and a couple of the surp......more