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The classic novel of the Dillinger era in America "Love as hot as a blow torch . . . crime as vicious as the jungle" (from the original 1948 edi... read full description


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Mar 18, 2011
Michael rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye is hardboiled fiction in the finest tradition. Whatever you believe pulp noir or hardboiled writing is, you’ll find it here. Tough guys, sexy women, crooked lawyers, dishonest cops, blackmail, betrayal, manipulation, sex and violence, it’s all in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, and it all hits home hard.

As a fan of hardboiled crime fiction, you’d think I’d have fallen in love with this one and I would have had the cover bronzed and framed to sit above my fireplace. If so More...
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Jan 23, 2010
Andy rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Atypical late 40's crime novel. Sociopathic main character reminded me of some of Elmore Leonard's crazed dirtbags. Some excellent writing and very funny dialogue that hasn't dated in 60+ years. Interesting to read a book like this that was years ahead of most other books of the genre.
Jan 16, 2009
Johnny rated it: 5 of 5 stars
A hard-boiled classic. While McCoy is mainly known for "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", this book is his masterpiece. It deserves to be rediscovered.
Jul 27, 2011
Nikita rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Atmosphere on the top
Jul 15, 2008
Mikel rated it: 5 of 5 stars
from the first line this novel takes off with a whirlwind topped only by Jim Thompson at his best. Read this before They Shoot Horses Don't They, indeed was the only reason why I read that book, and in all honesty I couldn;t get enough. One of the more graphic sex and violence novels from that era. I cannot imagine how they got away with making a film of this at that time......
Jul 19, 2010
Kristopher marked it as to-read
This is one intense book. Extremely graphic for a late 40s crime novel. Closer to what came out in the late '50s (and that's only with Jim Thompson) and even later.

UPDATE, June 22, 2010: It's intense in terms of content matter, but it's kind of pretentious, and now getting a little annoying.
Dec 11, 2007
Stephen rated it: 4 of 5 stars
This is one nasty hard as hell crime fiction piece.
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