Alas, Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke is a mess. And I like him
a lot, I loved his long Already Dead. Tim O'Brien's The
Things They Carried is superb. Other hard edge "rather noir"
writers include Stewart O'Nan and even that wonderful True
Confessions by the late John Gregory Dunne. Oh, yes--to sneak
in a good friend--Kent Anderson--Sympathy For the Devil is
one of the best books about war ever written, for my money,
and his later cop novel Night Dogs is great, too. And nobody
is darker than Cormac McCarthy.
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