Burn Notice: The Fix book cover

Right now I’m reading Burn Notice: The Fix by Tod Goldberg.

Let me begin by saying that I’m a huge fan of Burn Notice.  It’s among my favourite TV shows¹, so I bought the book as soon as I knew it existed (I did the same think with the Monk books).

I’m such a fan of Burn Notice that I would buy, read and enjoy any book they released, but I couldn’t help but noticing that Burn Notice: The Fix needs more editing.

I found the first mistake on page 4 – instead of Miami-Dade it says Miami-Dad.  And it’s not just spelling – on page 182 it says Overhead, planes were taxiing into and out of Miami International.  Really?  They were taxiing overhead?  Were you buried under the airport?

On the other hand, since the TV show uses first person narration in Michael Westen’s voice, the book being written in the first person feels just right.

I was surprised that there are mentions of sub-prime loans and bank collapses in the book – although our current economic problems have been looming for a while, I didn’t expect to start seeing them in fiction quite so quickly.

So far there has been one really good quote in the book:

“What do you normally eat for breakfast?”

“Al-Quaeda,” I said. “Or yogurt.”

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1. Monk, Psych, Dexter,  Chuck, House, Bones, Life, Pushing Daisies, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, The Closer, The Middleman, Eureka, Reaper, How I Met Your Mother, True Blood, My Name Is Earl, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Big Bang Theory.  Looking at that list, I guess I watch too much television – that’s only the top ones and only ones that are still being made (bring back Firefly!).