Mark wrote:
> I saw books by Charlie Huston (with a blurb from Ken
Bruen) and David
> Bowker in a bookstore today. Has anyone read either?
Are they any
> good?
I loved Bowker's latest, HOW TO BE BAD. I'm not sure it's
hardboiled so much as a wicked black comedy, taking the piss
out of Nick Hornby and his crowd. It's compulsively readable,
as are Bowker's two earlier books, THE DEATH YOU DESERVE and
I LOVE MY SMITH & WESSON. I recommend them all
heartily.
(In the interest of full disclosure: Bowker and I share an
editor at St. Martin's--Marc Resnick. But I would have liked
him anyway.)
Charlie Huston's CAUGHT STEALING is also terrific, despite
the fact that does the James Joyce thing with his
dialogue.
--What's do you mean?
--You know. Dialogue like this. No quotation marks.
--Oh.
--See? Not so bad, once you get used to it.
Cheers--
Duane Swierczynski secretdead.blogspot.com
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