  Listen to a bestseller for $7.49 at!  One of the helpful
things about the way in which modern authors have experimented
with the private eye genre is that their various innovations and
deconstructions have only served to demonstrate how nearly
perfect is the original form.  In the end, we keep coming back,
and I hope always will, to the lone wolf tough guy--no
girlfriend, no wife, no boyfriend, no hulking and conveniently
amoral sidekick to do the dirty work, no supernatural cases, no
gimmicks of any kind.  Within the select group that is still
writing these throwback series, there are a few who really stand
out.  Loren D. Estleman (author of the Amos Walker series) is
pretty much in a league of his own. Then, in the next tier,
you've got Jonathan Valin (Harry Stoner), Peter Corris (Cliff
Hardy), and a couple more, including Jerry Kennealy and his
hero, Nick Polo.  In Polo Anyone ?, the second entry in the
series, ex-cop, ex-jailbird, San Francisco private eye, Nick
Polo, is hired to expose a suspected card