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Pony Girls

Name: Pony Girls
Author: Richard Hoyt
ISBN: 9781466842533

by Richard Hoyt

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Overview

Strange doings: European jumping horses have died mysteriously. Now prime Spanish mustang stallions are being killed all over the West. A beautiful young television newswoman is chasing the story, and some weirdo is posting obscene clues on the net.

John Denson, Annie Dancer, and Willie Sees the Night are retained to find the horse killers. Denson prefers logic, Annie her computer skills, and they share a lively bed. The shaman Willie reaches beyond reason: He again sends Denson flying into mysterious realms to find the truth. Are the animal spirits Denson sees real? Has Willie Sees the Night been fighting the shape-changing Koonran since the beginning of time? Is this the true source of all evil? Or is the monster part of us all, coursing through our blood?

Pony Girls is John Denson's wildest adventure.

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About the Author, Richard Hoyt

Richard Hoyt, a graduate of the University of Oregon, is a former fellow of the Washington Journalism Center and holds a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Hawaii. He served as U.S. army counterintelligence agent, wrote for daily newspapers in Honolulu, and was a stringer for Newsweek magazine. He taught journalism at the University of Maryland and at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Or.

Hoyt is the author of the John Denson mysteries, the James Burlane thrillers and numerous other novels of adventure, espionage and suspense including two under the pseudonym of Nicholas van Pelt. In researching and writing in more than two dozen countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, he has ridden trains across the Soviet Union and riverboats down the Amazon. He now lives in the Philippines.

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Publishers Weekly

Richard Hoyt's Pony Girls: A John Denson Mystery, the ninth in the series (after 2003's The Weatherman's Daughter), mixes myth, metaphor and mystery, with sometimes confusing results. PI Denson investigates the deaths of more than 20 Spanish mustangs spread over a large area of the Western U.S. He also engages in a cosmic battle of good vs. evil that may or may not be metaphoric. Agent, Jacques de Spoelberch. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Denson, Dancer, and Sees the Night (The Weatherman's Daughter, 2003, etc.) are hired to rope in a serial killer stalking stallions. Ex-reporter John Denson, ex-FBI agent Annie Dancer, hallucinatory drug maven Willie Sees the Night are soft-boiled dicks operating out of Portland, Oregon-operating, as usual, in a style uniquely their own. Sees the Night, for instance, is a shaman, a crack out-of-body investigator who does his best work after imbibing certain controlled substances. Twenty-two valuable stallions have been murdered in diverse ways on the hooves of 16 European jumping horses. Are the two sets of horrors actually one? And are they connected to the beaching of 41 sperm whales? Denson, at his office/home in Whorehouse Meadow, gets a call from peerless TV journalist Erika von Bayer seeking help. Her dad, though defunct, remains a leading suspect in this hairiest of horse operas, and she wants his name cleared. Turns out the family album is chock-full of leading suspects: Erika's loopy mom, her vengeful grandmom, plus the gorgeous, dubious TV queen herself. Will Denson, Dancer, and winged Willie sort it all out? Not until after the customary jazzy sorties into what might or might not be a parallel reality. Plotless, aimless, relentlessly silly. Only the most charitable readers will suspend disbelief.