Hey, I read this book this morning in a coffee shop. Funny, quippy-witty, but tense as all heck, with some very-early-stage love story going on. Westlake's reputation does preceed him, and it's well earned. Definitely seems to have a knack for stories about normal guys in over their heads, sliding sideways.
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The Bang Devils by Patrick Foss
There is a kind of crime fiction that focuses on criminals who are out of their depth--sometimes my a lot, sometimes by enough to seem lik...
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A beautiful novel about life as a mobster (in 1940s Tampa) and all the contradictions and complications of it. Lehane clearly has an ear f...
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Well, this was a bit of a disappointment. Not *horrible*, but a bit bland. and with stakes that in the end seemed abruptly lower--in the s...
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This is a novel about people who are broken and not yet stronger at the broken places, though at least the two POVs you can see how and wher...
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