Last night I finished James Sallis's Drive. (Anyone know if
Sallis intends to write more books with this character? Some
comments at the end certainly make it seem like a
possibility.) That's two great books last year featuring
professional getaway drivers, this and Wheelman.
I started trying to think of other books about drivers. I can
think of caper novels with drivers in minor parts, but I'm
having touble thinking of others with drivers as the main
character. Can anyone else think of others?
We've mentioned that hardboiled and noir often deal with
professionalism. Following the recent posts on hardboiled
journalists, we could come up with a catalog of books about
those different professions.
Mark
ps -- is there a difference between a bootlegger's turn and a
moonshiner's turn? Sallis uses both in a sentence describing
one of Driver's movie stunts. A bootlegger's turn is a moving
180, also known as a Bat-turn, right? So what's a
moonshiner's turn?
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