Yeah, Vengeance Man is great. As is Get Carter, too.
I'm not that keen on Gores'es revenge tales. I prefer his
other books and stories. The same with Leonard.
Haven't yet read Kiss Her Goodbye, but I have it
somewhere.
Tapani
DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net kirjoitti 17.10.2007 kello
23.34:
> Mario wrote:
>
> "OK, so what are the greatest hardboiled/noir tales
of revenge ever
> written? Joe Gores wrote two very fine ones, _A Time
for Predators_
> and
> _Dead Man_."
>
> Not just those two. Doesn't Wolf Time fit this
theme, also?
>
> Vengeance Man by Dan Marlowe, of course.
>
> Although he is supposedly just after his money,
Parker gets a lot of
> vengeance on those who took it in The Hunter (AKA
Point Blank and
> Payback).
>
> Get Carter is about finding out what happened to his
borther and
> "making
> it right." Russell Jams's Payback works a similar
theme, as does Allan
> Guthrie's Kiss Her Goodbye.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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