Vince Keenan wrote:
I tracked down Whitfield's novel after a conversation with a
book store owner, who said that it and Paul Cain's FAST ONE
were the most hard-boiled books ever written.
How accurate is that assessment? I still haven't been
able to scare up a copy of FAST ONE.
********** I'm sure that the contemporary trend to overdo
everything has produced works that could be considered more
hardboiled, but these two books still stand out as
mega-hardboiled. For me, a lot of the modern stuff that is
ultra-hardboiled has a retro feel to it. Gores's INTERFACE
comes to mind.
Good luck on finding FAST ONE. I had to pay big money
(new trade paperback price) for a copy on Abebooks.
miker
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