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Hogdoggin' (Billy Lafitte, #2)

Anthony Neil Smith

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Jul 17, 2011 Fiona Johnson rated it really liked it

HOGDOGGIN', Anthony Neil Smith's second Billy Lafitte novel, roars into town bringing with it the stench of death, vengeance, sex and blood. Quite a combination of smells you may think, well add to that the stink of vomit, burning flesh and aerosol fumes and you might begin to get a sense of the degenerate characters that leap off the page and grab you by the throat in this riveting tale of love and revenge.

Having blown any chance of rehabilitation with the police force or his ex-wife in YELLOW HOGDOGGIN', Anthony Neil Smith's second Billy Lafitte novel, roars into town bringing with it the stench of death, vengeance, sex and blood. Quite a combination of smells you may think, well add to that the stink of vomit, burning flesh and aerosol fumes and you might begin to get a sense of the degenerate characters that leap off the page and grab you by the throat in this riveting tale of love and revenge.

Having blown any chance of rehabilitation with the police force or his ex-wife in YELLOW MEDICINE, Lafitte has found safety with a notorious motorcycle clan as the enforcer for its ghastly leader Steel God who doles out punishments to keep the clan members from challenging his autocratic rule or betraying the clan to its rivals.

There is no reparation for wrong-doings in the clan and Lafitte survives this brutal landscape by not questioning or threatening Steel God's authority, justifying his part in executions as necessary actions that were deserved punishment.

As Lafitte endures this day to day hell he is oblivious that his old adversary, FBI agent Rome, is secretly plotting to get revenge for the beating he took at Lafitte's hands and to make sure that this time, Lafitte pays for the trail of death and destruction that blew across the state of Minnesota so violently when they last met.

Hogdoggin' is more than just a petrol head's book. Smith opens the lid on the secret sexual power struggles of Rome's wife, Desiree, who discovers delightful and surprising methods to punish her FBI agent husband for the years of neglect she has suffered while he became totally consumed with ensnaring his nemesis, Lafitte. As her relationship and sexual desire for her husband becomes stronger, contrary events cause Ginny, Lafitte's wife, to weaken and disintegrate.

The lengths that people will go to for the sake of love is a major theme within the book. Smith shows a variety of characters who struggle in their own diverse ways for acceptance in a world of outcasts, no-hopers and loneliness.

This is a truly fabulous, multi-layered book that will fascinate, repulse and at the very end make you scream. What more could you ask for?
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May 15, 2011 Benoit Lelièvre rated it it was amazing

I read this baby over 26 hours, from New York to Montreal. I my eyes were welded to the pages. Each time I think Anthony Neil Smith cannot get better, he outdoes himself. I thought Yellow Medicine was great, but it's merely a prologue to Hogdoggin' which is an epic of noir. Unforgettable characters, scorching pace, raving madness. Anthony Neil Smith is growing to be one of my favorite living writers. ...more

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