Even at the end, when the Phillipses and Brubaker take a leap that is as intriguing as it is an absolute gutpunch.APO/FPO, Afghanistan, Africa, American Samoa, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Europe, Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Georgia, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mexico, Micronesia, Middle East, Mongolia, Montserrat, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Qatar, Reunion, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South America, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Destroy All Monsters is a pleasure to read.
Plus, Brubaker’s always had an ear for terrific dialogue, whether warm or vicious. Even when they’re at odds with each other - Ethan’s anti-nihilism is both deeply honorable and makes him prone to stasis, while Anna is pushing her limits and starting to figure out who she’ll be in the next phase of her life - there’s a deep care between them that’s both genuinely sweet and complicates Reckless’ assumptions about himself in fascinating ways.
Reckless’ friendship with Anna goes back years, born from a shared love for movies and the two of them being in the right place at the right time to forge the sort of connection that lives turn on. Destroy All Monsters, by contrast, is a platonic love story. Both Reckless and the second book Friend of the Devil considered Reckless as a lover - first to a woman he had known before the bomb that made him who he is, and second to a woman he believes he may well have loved. Destroy All Monsters turns Ethan Reckless to a new angle, and the results are fascinating. The Fortune Teller, Anna’s mother, the TV host. Pick any character in this series, and in The Ghost In You, and I would gladly read a book with their exploits.
The Phillipses (they’re father and son) are matched by Ed Brubaker’s script work. Brubaker has written characters with quirks and oddities yet they seem to have a full inner life.
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