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A review by tommooney
How's the Pain? by Pascal Garnier
3.0
HOW'S THE PAIN by Pascal Garnier.
A kind of young drifter gets a job driving an apparent pest control expert to a meeting after a chance encounter on a park bench. Only this is Garnier so of course he isn't a pest controller but an ageing hitman. The bodies begin to pile up as they embark on a strange and violent road trip.
This isn't Garnier's best work but he is always enjoyable to read, dark and funny and slightly surreal. He was certainly the heir to Simenon; he had the same quirky style and always packs a punch in little more than 100 pages.
A kind of young drifter gets a job driving an apparent pest control expert to a meeting after a chance encounter on a park bench. Only this is Garnier so of course he isn't a pest controller but an ageing hitman. The bodies begin to pile up as they embark on a strange and violent road trip.
This isn't Garnier's best work but he is always enjoyable to read, dark and funny and slightly surreal. He was certainly the heir to Simenon; he had the same quirky style and always packs a punch in little more than 100 pages.