Among my recent reads was: Night Dogs by Kent Anderson
(1996), which was strongly recommended by some reliable
readers. And they were right! It is a first class novel,
thick but not... long, dark and violent, but without
complacency. It's an impressionist portrait of the
protagonist, Hanson, a street cop in Portland - Oregon who
faces a merciless street world, wherein fate is nothing more
than odds, and who's trying to overcome his nihilist view of
human society he held since his participation to the Vietnam
war. It's a novel with real depth but achieving this without
being condescending. A very talented writer, a highly
recommended "crime" novel!
Anderson wrote a previous novel: Sympathy for the Devil. I'm
inclined to read it as well. Do some of you know this book?
Any comments on that one? Thanks for any clue.
E.Borgers Hard-boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
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