Dan's review
Savage Night by Jim Thompson
He never wrote a cheery book, but this is Thompson at his bleakest and most savage, and featuring the strangest climax in all of noir, a sustained piece of virtuoso weirdness that runs counter to the grim realism that has come before and must surely have informed the writing of many a coat-tail dragging hepcat. Chuck Pahaluniuk, I am looking at you.
