I had a Joe Gores book on the shelf that I hadn't read: DEAD
MAN, about a man whose family is gunned down and who himself
is left for dead. He recovers, gets tough, and goes out for
revenge on whoever was responsible. It starts in San
Francisco, which is why I thought it'd be apropos, but soon
moves to Chicago and then New Orleans.
There was some talk about this book on the list a while
before. I think folks said it wasn't Gores' best, and I'd
agree. I may just drop it. He switches narrative focus a fair
bit, and not in that percolating way he has in the DKA books.
It's in the INTERFACE vein, according to the back cover (and
INTERFACE is damned good), but I'd say it's got too many
cliched movie script techniques.
Bill
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