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Ken Tucker
Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW
While vacationing in Thailand, an aging rock star and his wife get mixed up with murder, kidnapping, and Homeland Security in Mark Haskell Smith’s Salty.
Grisliest Death
''A whiny cheapskate from Seattle, his head bashed in by the butt of an
AK-47.''
Lowdown
Smith gets the details of midlevel rock stardom just right — his bumbling
hero is a pot-bellied bassist for Metal Assassin — mixing laughs and
satire like a cross between Carl Hiaasen and Ross Thomas. A-
Posted Jun 08, 2007
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