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Beat the Reaper
by Josh Bazell
Even better than Wild Thing, which was the follow-up. Love the style, the story, the sheer fun of it all.
I'll repeat some of what I said for his other book, Wild Thing.
Muscular, powerful prose that's fun, smart, tough, and entertaining. Reminds me favorably of Don Winslow's Savages (now out as a movie). If somebody directs this as a movie, it better be Tarantino, who can handle this type of smash-em school of writing.
A Josh Bazell book is like staggering out of a rough bar fight with stab wounds, drowning the pain with Vicodin and tequila, then escaping on a rollercoaster with a homicidal madman, an exotic dancer, a professor, and an angry badger-- with only two bullets left in your gun as the coaster goes into a long, dark tunnel.
You have no idea what to expect, other than one hell of a wild ride.
Great stuff, not for the faint of heart, or the easily confused. Ya gotta be quick on the uptake for this stuff.
I'll repeat some of what I said for his other book, Wild Thing.
Muscular, powerful prose that's fun, smart, tough, and entertaining. Reminds me favorably of Don Winslow's Savages (now out as a movie). If somebody directs this as a movie, it better be Tarantino, who can handle this type of smash-em school of writing.
A Josh Bazell book is like staggering out of a rough bar fight with stab wounds, drowning the pain with Vicodin and tequila, then escaping on a rollercoaster with a homicidal madman, an exotic dancer, a professor, and an angry badger-- with only two bullets left in your gun as the coaster goes into a long, dark tunnel.
You have no idea what to expect, other than one hell of a wild ride.
Great stuff, not for the faint of heart, or the easily confused. Ya gotta be quick on the uptake for this stuff.