- KIRKUS
- REVIEWA
- chance
- incident
- brings
- racial
- and
- marital
- tensions
- on
- Long
- Island
- to
- a
- head
- in
- this
- first
- installment
- of
- a
- debut
- series.
Former
- golf
- wunderkind
- Buddy
- Graves
- never
- planned
- to
- return
- to
- his
- old
- club
- as
- a
- caddy
- at
- age
- 32,
- but
- the
- recession
- had
- other
- ideas.
- Now
- he's
- just
- trying
- to
- hold
- fast
- to
- his
- lovely
- nurse
- wife,
- Dana,
- while
- watching
- his
- neighborhood
- crumble
- in
- the
- housing
- bust.
- Then
- it
- happens:
- a
- 7-year-old
- girl
- who
- lives
- next
- door
- slips
- innocently
- into
- Buddy's
- bathroom,
- he
- hustles
- her
- outside,
- a
- cell
- phone
- camera
- snaps
- and
- one
- Tyrell
- Walker
- embarks
- on
- a
- twisted
- crusade
- for
- "Webtribution"
- and
- racial
- justice.
- But
- that's
- not
- Buddy's
- only
- problem.Dominating
- the
- country
- club
- scene
- is
- Izzy
- Weinberg,
- nursing
- home
- baron,
- and
- his
- still-sexy
- wife,
- Elaine,
- with
- whom
- Buddy
- enjoyed
- a
- steamy
- flirtation
- on
the
- links
- years
- ago.
- Izzy
- harbors
- Carnegie-style
- railroad
- dreams,
- boozes
- up
- Chinese
- business
- partners
- and
- keeps
- a
- smart
- young
- assistant
- working
- late
- under
- his
- covers.The
- web
- tightens
- when
- Dana
- joins
- a
- health
- task
- force
- investigating
- Izzy's
- empire,
- and
- then
- her
- muckracking
- blogger
- gal
- pal
- posts
- a
- damning
- photo
- of
- a
- black
- activist
- professor—with
- connections
- to
- Tyrell—in
- company
- of
- the
- wrong
- color.
- So
- unfolds
- this
- smartly
- structured
- soap
- opera
- that
- adroitly
- lampoons
- our
- postmodern smugness.
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