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Jack Dancer is like a human pinball, bouncing through life with all the finesse of a drunk elephant. Born with a silver spoon (which he quickly pawned for beer money), Jack’s seen it all—from the gutter to the penthouse, sometimes in the same week.
By 11, he realized Santa was just Dad with better marketing. At 13, he discovered girls weren’t icky. By 14, God seemed as real as his dreams of becoming a pro yodeler.
At 16, high on hormones and low on common sense, Jack and a trio of teenage dreamers headed for New York. Instead of fame, they found themselves living in a basement with a wino until Jack’s dad dragged him back home.
Lesson learned? Hardly. It was just the opening chapter in Jack’s “How to Piss Off Authority” guide.
By 18, he’d landed at a Florida school for sociopaths, which earned him a “get out of Vietnam” pass. He hitched to Boston with a new wife and cat, dove into the counterculture, and worked as a welder for a defense contractor. Life’s full of contradictions.
Jack’s resume reads like a drunk’s dartboard: ice cream man, boardwalk barker, welder, snake oil salesman—sorry, advertising executive.
He’s been married four times (one lasted 28 years, one was a hiccup), and fatherhood taught him that kids are like tattoos on your face—seemed like a good idea at the time.
In Jack’s world, life’s simple: no sequel, no refunds.
Reviewed by Golder Hazelton for Readers' Favorite
A well-seasoned adage playfully proclaims that men are born with two heads and only enough blood to run one at a time. Never has that been more true than in the case of Tucker Blue, the indefatigably single-minded and unwittingly charming anti-hero of Jack Dancer’s Spanish Prisoner. Tucker, middle-aged and freshly divorced but still highly libidinous, is bumped off a standby flight at JFK and meets stunning and equally stranded standby traveler Monica Reyes, with whom he falls irretrievably and instantly in lust. In the next 600-plus thrilling and unpredictable pages, the two embark on an epic adventure that carries them, by plane and train, as their erotic adventure morphs into a life-and-death game of cat-and-mouse with government agents and world-class criminals from New York to London, through the French countryside, and on to Barcelona for an impossible-to-predict ending that will leave readers breathless and abundantly satisfied.
Tucker Blue, hopelessly heterosexual and refreshingly singular of purpose, wants only to close the deal with the mysterious and alluring Monica and never expects to find himself in any of the extraordinary scenarios he miraculously survives. Along the way, he becomes a consummate anti-hero, just trying to survive, and peppers Jack Dancer’s delightfully explicit narrative with wickedly amusing quips and metaphors that will keep even the most discriminating readers turning “just one more page.” A typical “Tuckerism”: comparing the common name for oral sex to a phrase from Italian opera - this character is as funny as he is ingenious. In truth, Jack Dancer’s plotting and characterization skills are so prodigious (just wait until you meet Raven) that much of Spanish Prisoner defies categorization. As a bonus, Dancer thoughtfully includes an introductory list of characters and a most welcome epilogue detailing key characters’ fates after the story ends. Between the white-heat sexual tension, the nail-biting moments as Tucker and Monica run from two separate and equally sadistic sets of villains, the “Hold my beer” suspense, and the “Did that really just happen?” reversals and plot twists, Spanish Prisoner reads like a Who’s Who of masterful literary devices. Spanish Prisoner is a thriller, part erotic romance and part travelogue. It often reads like a true crime offering with scenes rivaling the most terrifying in the horror genre, and, in its more inventive moments, has all the madcap comedic frenzy of a farce. This is a novel like no other, full of plot twists and seemingly impossible scenarios that coalesce brilliantly and unexpectedly into a thrill-a-minute potboiler not to be missed.
