At 07:00 04-09-02 EDT, you wrote:
>One of the best procedurals I have read is Kent
Andersons Night Dogs . A
>follow up to his Vietnam novel Sympathy for the
Devil. Night Dogs has a very
>noirish feel and is riviting right to the very last
page.
>paul
It's a really great novel, I agree. But in my opinion it's
not a procedural, even if it depicts some of the work of
street policemen in Detroit. This novel is much more than
that, as it does not privilege any crime or mystery intrigue
to be the center point of its story. It's more the struggle
of a man against his vision of the world that he can only
perceive through violence, horror and death. His cop duty
puts him at the front line of the evil and death generated by
society. And when he tries to apply some direct justice to
this chaotic world in front of him, it is by using the same
mechanism of destruction and violence... Dark, haunting, it
goes to your soul.
IMHO Kent Anderson's NIGHT DOGS is one of the best noir
novells of the nineties.
E.Borgers Hard-Boiled Mysteries http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
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