Juri Nummelin wrote:
> "Anatomy of a Killer" is a masterpiece. Very cool,
very tense, very
> tough. I believe it's one of the best books ever
written about a stupid
> hit man.
One of the best? Actually, there's an even better one that I
don't remember being mentioned here: DEAD CITY by Shane
Stevens. A very interesting writer. I'd like to know more
about him. He wrote an excellent first-person ghetto novel,
WAY UPTOWN IN ANOTHER WORLD, that was so authentic that
Stevens, who is white, was assumed to be black. His best
known book, a serial killer novel, is BY REASON OF INSANITY,
another work marked by a high level of autheticity -- a
fictional narrative, it appears on a number of true crime
lists -- and rivals Thomas Harris' RED DRAGON, which came out
two years later. The books are so similar in their basic
structure and approach that I wouldn't be surprised to learn
that Harris was influenced by Stevens. Of the two, Harris'
book is more visceral, Stevens' is more convincing.
BobT
> I have "Shroud for Jesso", but haven't read it. Is
it one of
> the goods? I failed to notice it in Bob's
list.
>
> Juri
>
jurnum@utu.fi
>
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