From Library Journal
Underemployed graphic artist Alex Reynolds and his lover, Peter Livesay, volunteer at the Chicago campaign headquarters of a liberal senate contender. When an early morning explosion kills the lesbian office manager, the CIA, wondering who the real target was, asks Alex and Peter (part-time employees anyway) for help. As in past adventures, Peter acts as foil to Alex's flightiness, while Alex's mom assists. Here she has a special assignment: her attractive English suitor happens to have been in the wrong place at the right time. As usual, Hunter provides a lively romp for series fans. Recommended. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Booklist
Hunter presents another charmer in his Alex Reynolds series. As always, Alex's sidekick is his partner of eight years, the more conservative Peter, who may roll his eyes in exasperation at Alex's wilder schemes, but who inevitably goes along. Third in the triumphant trio is Alex's mom, Jean, a terribly British and wonderfully comic character who plays sidekick to no one, and who is quite possibly the most diverting second banana in gay/lesbian mystery fiction since Ellen Hart's irrepressible Cordelia Thorne. This time around, the fellows are volunteers for gay-friendly politician Charlie Clarke, stuffing envelopes and fielding telephone hate messages from the Religious Reich when the headquarters is bombed, killing the office manager. There's never a dull moment on the home front, either, since Jean is caught up in a whirlwind courtship with a visiting professor. The thought (let alone the reality) of his mother dating--and effervescing about it--has Alex in a tailspin as he suspiciously questions the coincidence--or is it?--of seemingly unrelated events. Whitney Scott
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Book Description
Alex Reynolds and his lover Peter Livesay are dragooned into volunteering for a Chicago area progressive politician's campaign, which entails stuffing envelopes, answering the phones, and dealing with the daily bomb threats from a wide variety of wackos. But one of them was serious enough to actually do it, and now the office manager of the campaign appears to have been killed in the explosion. But, of course, it couldn't be that simple? With the help of their reluctant CIA contacts, Alex and Peter (and Alex's reluctant mother) begin investigating the bombing and soon discover that something much bigger is at play and their own lives are now at stake.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Alex Reynolds and his lover Peter Livesay are dragooned into volunteering for a Chicago area progressive politician's campaign, which entails stuffing envelopes, answering the phones, and dealing with the daily bomb threats from a wide variety of wackos. But one of them was serious enough to actually do it, and now the office manager of the campaign appears to have been killed in the explosion. But, of course, it couldn't be that simple? With the help of their reluctant CIA contacts, Alex and Peter (and Alex's reluctant mother) begin investigating the bombing and soon discover that something much bigger is at play and their own lives are now at stake.

FROM THE CRITICS

Library Journal

Underemployed graphic artist Alex Reynolds and his lover, Peter Livesay, volunteer at the Chicago campaign headquarters of a liberal senate contender. When an early morning explosion kills the lesbian office manager, the CIA, wondering who the real target was, asks Alex and Peter (part-time employees anyway) for help. As in past adventures, Peter acts as foil to Alex's flightiness, while Alex's mom assists. Here she has a special assignment: her attractive English suitor happens to have been in the wrong place at the right time. As usual, Hunter provides a lively romp for series fans. Recommended. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

Kirkus Reviews

"It's hard to remain politically neutral when you know as many dykes as we do," says Alex Reynolds. All too soon, said dykes shanghai Alex and his lover Peter Livesay (Capital Queers, 1999, etc.) into helping Democratic hopeful Charlie Clarke bring liberal values to the US Senate, and all too soon after that, one of the bombs everybody's always joking about around the office blows up, along with one of the dykes—and it's up to Peter, Alex, and Alex's mother to restore order, dignity, and family values to Illinois politics.