Golden Fang

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Don Antenen <dantenen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The idea I'm toying with right now, a week out from my first read of IV, is that the Golden Fang is mostly a distraction from what the LAPD is up to.
>
> Reading the book through the lens of 'the Golden Fang doesn't really matter' is sort of interesting, anyway.  That's the fun part of fiction; you can read and reread it so many different ways and make it all 'true'.  Unless you read it the wrong way, of course...

What is really at stake here, we discover, is the suppression of a
secret that could have destroyed the political career of the ambitious
Governor of the State of California. For now, finally, we see the
Golden Fang for what it really is: the toothy smile of Governor Ronald
Reagan, about to drop a steel chain around America and drag it back
into the dungeon. Sportello realises that the good times are coming to
an end, but there is nothing he can do - the battle is lost, the
conservatives have won....  the great communal togetherness of the
1960s is almost gone, to be replaced by materialism and solipsism. God
save us, for the 1980s are at hand.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article6724624.ece