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... The action of Sundowner Ubuntu, the fifth in the Russell Quant series, is set in motion when Russell is hired by a middle-aged woman named Clara Ridge to locate her, son whose juvenile delinquency caused her husband to disown the boy when he was only sixteen. The recent death of her flint-hearted husband has freed her to search for Matthew, whom she hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years. Russell’s search eventually takes him to a slum in South Africa and a game preserve in Botswana, where ...

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Published in: May-June 2008 issue.

 

Sundowner UbuntuSundowner Ubuntu
by Anthony Bidulka
Insomniac Press. 286 pages, $15.95

 

ANTHONY BIDULKA’S Russell Quant novels offer an engaging variation upon the pattern established by Hansen and extended by writers like Michael Nava in the Henry Rios series and Sue Grafton in the alphabet series. Far from being marginalized by his society, Russell lives at the center of a strong circle of friends, both gay and straight, who meet regularly for drinks, celebrate each other’s birthdays, and support each other in times of trial.

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