“I’d taken the law into my own hands, and I liked the feel of it.” Woah. None more hard-boiled. A guns-blazing bank robbery and getaway gets intercut with a rivetting back story (don’t mess with this guy’s friends or pets) that rivals “The Catcher In The Rye” for top notch characterful storytelling....
In the great pantheon of crime books I have read in the last two weeks, I solidly place The man who refers to himself as Roy Martin between the one who calls himself Parker (the pinnacle) and the one who calls himself Nolan (the ordinary).This was a very sharp, tightly written, very hardboiled, mean...