GBH is a pretty great, if somewhat bizarre, book about a porn
king/crime
lord in hiding after a crime war. The book cuts between his
mostly
boring (to him, not to the reader) current paranoid existence
and the
recent memories he is trying to drink away. It takes a very
odd turn
near the end, but GBH is really something.
A few other Ted Lewis books have recently come back into
print in the
UK, including Plender and Rabbit. I haven't read these yet,
nor Boldt,
which I have waiting somewhere, but I have read Billy Rags.
It's about a
gangster who doublecrosses a crime boss in a prison break,
which means
that not only are the cops after him, but that boss's friends
on the
outside. Not quite Edward Bunker, but pretty good if you like
prison
break books.
Mark
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