Read:
Lawless: A Criminal Edition, Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
Kill All Your Darlings, Luc Sante
(Skip the longish essay on the bygone era of America as a smoking culture if you’re trying to quit [smoking], but do read the piece on the Mekons whether the name means anything to you or not.)
Matala, Craig Holden
Delusion, Peter Abrahams
(Abrahams’ thrillers are the books Harlan Coben thinks he writes. If Hitchcock were still alive, he’d be bringing Abrahams to the screen.)
Zero Cool, John Lange
Reading:
Yellow-Dog Contract, Ross Thomas
On Deck:
Dirty Money, Richard Stark
A Special Providence, Richard Yates
Fidelity, Thomas Perry
The appearance of a new Thomas Perry novel signals that this blog is nearly one year old.
Is this when the money starts pouring in?
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3 comments:
Hey Joe, how'd you like Lawless?
I liked Coward a little more, but that's only because the more-action-than-noir conclusion made me so happy.
Get to that Parker yet?
Chris
I prefered Lawless to Coward overall, but Coward did have the better ending.
Parker learns of an accomplice's attempted betrayal and shrugs it off, no hard feelings, it was the smart play; but let some citizen walk around the corner at the wrong time and he's done for, in blink-and-you-miss-it fashion.
So, yeah. Same old Parker, but I'm always surprised.
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