This review is from: For Your Damned Love (A Doc Hardesty Adventure) by Linton Robinson
“For Your Damned Love” is the story of Dancy, a beautiful, demanding woman from the States, whose husband comes to Mexico to make a high-level drug deal with Armando, a local drug-lord. While here, he makes a deal with Armando to kidnap Dancy, enjoy for eight months and kill her. Doc Hardesty, a semi-retired mercenary, is hired by Dancy’s father to find his daughter and bring her back. Doc succeeds, but not until Dancy has taken over Armando’s gang starting with a gripping erotic scene in a hidden jungle pool near Puerto Vallarta.
The scene of her kidnapping is unlike anything most of us could imagine. In the nude, she fights two brawlers with only a tennis racket and does some real damage before they make off with her.
Dancy is luscious, but so is the writing of Linton Robinson, for example:
Writing about Memo and his son Marco Tulio, trumpet players: the kid had perfect pitch and timing, a feather touch, and all the chops in the world. Memo was better yet, with a brash, slapdash slide off true pitch that was always perfect, always strong and male, always a sad sort of swagger. And he could use sour notes like a chef uses sour cream. The kid had a more delicate, classical style; a Spanish sound of flamenco bodegas. You could close your eyes and see the bulls tossing their horns. Together the two would slip behind the violins, then romp out front like a swirl of skirts and lassos.
“You’ve done well with him, Memo.”
“Me? I’ve just tried to stay out of his way. Sometimes he scares me. You know, he never cried as a baby, He was saving it up for a horn.”
I believe “For Your Damned Love” is his eleventh novel. Robinson lives in Mexico close to the border. Next up for me is “Mary of Angels.”
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