This book asks questions about the form of justice, what is it and who should dispense it. The murders at the heart of the story are actually secondary to the actions of police and how they deal with the murders. When the difference between policing in America and Australia is taken into account, th...
Inhalt: Energy-Drinks und Zigaretten sind Billys Überlebenselexier, denn als Cop des New Yorker Police Departments ist er nachts der Hüter der Straße und dieser Job ist nicht gerade erfüllend. Noch immer nagt ein nicht gelöster Fall an seinem Gewissen, denn er als junger Cop nicht erfüllen konnte ...
A drug dealer is gunned down in a diner and the brother of another drug dealer is the prime suspect. Did he do it? That's what Rocco Klein wants to find out. But can he get the suspect's brother, a crack dealer named Strike, to cooperate?This is the fourteenth book in my Kindle Unlimited Experiment....
I came to Selby because I realized that I was interested in a genre called transgressive fiction, which I had not, until recently, even heard of. When I checked out the genre, in addition to many of my favorite books, I discovered that Selby was a leading writer. I then read Last Exit To Brooklyn ...
What are writers like? What makes them different? On goodreads, for example, they will be the people that write their 'about me' sections in the third person. However, I had a feeling there must be more to that. When I was younger I thought writers were an entirely different caste of people. You can...
Amazing!!!Clockers tracks the parallel stories of two men on different sides of the drug game (one a young, mid-level, crack dealer, the other a homicide cop), revolving around a murder in the fictional New Jersey Town of Dempsey. The engaging characterizations of these two men are what truly make t...
surprisingly dark and perverse. this is NOT the movie, and is far more akin to Last Exit to Brooklyn. there are many laugh-out-loud moments but they are a distinct minority when compared to the number of disturbing parts. the chapter with the devil-child luring a 'best friend' to his doom is wonderf...
I'm quite surprised that many readers regard it as a book about drug addiction and junkies of different types. I (as the title clearly states) mainly see it as an attempt of pursuing the American Dream, the one that grants all American citizens total and pure freedom. And so, since nobody really kno...
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