The 4 star rating is because the last hour of the book kind of drags. It's not the broken-twice divorced, living in the poor house, falling for a hot curvy woman with tears streaking her cheap mascara down her cheeks. Set in the modern-day streets and canyons of Los Angeles, The First Rule of Ten is at turns humorous, insightful, and riveting - a gripping mystery as well as a reflective, character-driven story with intriguing life-lessons for us all.Īn enjoyable new genre! It's not noir. One resignation from the police force, two bullet-wounds, three suspicious deaths, and a beautiful woman later, he quickly learns that whenever he breaks his first rule, mayhem follows. But as the Buddha says, change is inevitable and 10 years later, everything is about to change-big-time-for Ten. So when he was sent to Los Angeles to teach meditation, he joined the LAPD instead. Growing up in a Tibetan Monastery, Ten dreamed of becoming a modern-day Sherlock Holmes. In The First Rule of Ten, the first installment in a three-book detective series, we meet this spiritual warrior who is singularly equipped, if not occasionally ill-equipped, as he takes on his first case as a private investigator in Los Angeles. Tenzing Norbu ("Ten" for short) - ex-monk and soon-to-be ex-cop - is a protagonist unique to our times. "Don't ignore intuitive tickles lest they reappear as sledgehammers." That's the first rule of Ten.
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