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  • Charming, though unevenly paced, first novel in the Hermux Tantamoq series. Listed as a children's book, it still has appeal for adults who are young at heart.

    Though not stellar, this is about a three-out of-five-star book which interests the reader enough to continue on to the next book.

    

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When spunky aviatrix Linka Perflinger walks into Hermux Tantamoq's watch shop in Pinchester, it's obvious that she's anything but ordinary. And when she mysteriously disappears, it's clear Hermux must find her. Hermux unexpectedly stumbles across the key to the mystery when he intercepts the journal of an adventurous botanist who is missing in the faraway jungles of Teulabonari. A trail of clues leads directly to The Last Resort. The doctor who runs this exclusive spa, the reclusive Hiril Mennus, is putting the final touches on a machine that will put coin-operated plastic surgery into every shopping mall. Caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse that pits Hermux against an eccentric cosmetics tycoon, a sinister plastic surgeon, and a squad of ruthless lab rats, the watchmaker discovers that no one — not even himself — is quite what they seem.

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