Hi, miker.
> I searched the rara-avis archives for "evil, nasty,
wicked noir
> with lots of kinky sex and raging violence" and
Harrington's DARK
> RIDE popped up. Mario has mentioned him several
times and here
> recently I think Bill Denton spoke well of
him.
So what else came up in your search? <grin>
> DARK RIDE is aptly titled. It's difficult to not
draw parallels.
> Resurrect Jim Thompson, set him up with a meth lab
in a rundown
> trailer sitting by itself on some backwater Florida
dirt road,
> read Cain's THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE to him
and give him
> a typewriter.
Here are my comments from rec.arts.mystery, after I read it
last month:
_Dark Ride_, Kent Harrington
Boy meets girl (who happens to be into whips and chains) Boy
does something stupid to win girl Consequences ensue
A decent ride (no pun intended). It didn't *quite* work for
me. It required the antagonist to do something I thought was
unutterably stupid. Also, it's a frequent annoyance to see
depictions of BDSM that are so dysfunctional.
Pat
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