First comes the obligatory death of an innocent, in this case Becker's beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Also that the yacht, according to the acknowledgments page, is based on one owned by the late Malcolm Forbes and upon which the author once journeyed up the Amazon.Īs one would expect of such a concoction, Wet Work's plot moves smartly and preposterously along. It may bear mentioning that Buckley – whose previous novel, The White House Mess, was praised by many for its satire – is the son of the prolific conservative columnist and novelist William F. In the words of one of the archetypal fumbling bureaucrats who plays the inevitable foil, Charley Becker is ''the Rich Man's Bernhard Goetz.''
In addition to his finely engraved Purdy shotgun, Becker owns a custom- built yacht in the destroyer class equipped with an assault helicopter, manned by a trio of retired CIA killers named McNamara, Rostow, and Bundy, and decorated with original paintings by Manet. Instead of an impertinent working stiff like your typical Mel Gibson-Bruce Willis-Michael Douglas character, Wet Work gives us a maverick plutocrat: a self-made billionaire defense contractor and friend of the President named Charley Becker. But the real innovation in Buckley's work is sociological.
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Now comes former George Bush speechwriter Christopher Buckley with a novelized version.Įven though Wet Work isn't a movie yet, we're still talking extremely high concept: Lethal Weapon 2 meets The Emerald Forest, complete with nubile Amazonian love slaves flitting naked through the rain forest. Audiences do more chuckling than gasping. For all the gore, pictures like Die Hard are essentially Road Runner cartoons with superior special effects.
In the movies, maverick cops roam the world, taking names, kicking butts, and making wisecracks. Thanks to Hollywood and writers like Christopher Buckley, America has given the world a brand-new literary form: the revenge comedy.
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