The Expendable Man
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299572591 (1299572596)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Pulp,
Fiction
Venner departed with the hate still ugly in his eyes, with more hate for an innocent Hugh than for a guilty. The Venners would not be changed in their generation. I'm not going to provide many plot details for this book as I found it hugely beneficial to know next to nothing about this book. Every...
A very smart, cleverly written and well paced noir. Hughes places an interesting spin on the wrong man noir genre here, with a soaring critique and indictment of societal prejudices and injustices.
I've read a lot of noir fiction/crime by such auhors as Raymond Chandler and James Cain, but this book was more satisfying and engaging than any I've read. Sadly, I'd never heard of Dorothy B Hughes despite the fact that she wrote some of the finest crime fiction of her (or our) day. She's now bein...
12 years ago
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