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Pretty good so far. High on detail. But never expected bank thief Earl Drake to turn into a patriotic spy.

The first 30 pages are excellent. A tense plane journey. Followed by a sex scene. A film about a robbery featuring Black Panthers.

This is going to be tricky. A literary fiction writer stepping down into the swamp that is American crime fiction. You could argue that Angels and Already Dead are also crime novels in some ways and you wouldn't be wrong. But you know what I mean.

I wish there was a dictator or some society imposed rule that would make us read awesome books like this and save attention deficit brain rotted morons like me from shitty podcasters and YouTube videos. I am struggling with this at the age of 45 even though I am enjoying the hell out of it because I watch too many shitty Youtube videos which cannot replace the joy of reading a novel as awesome as this.

Ray Elwood is as subversively entertaining as Mark Renton.

This is an American army base book. Something About a Soldier by Charles Willeford is another book like this one.

Off to a good start. I had watched the film starring Joaquin Phoenix and it was awesome.

A small book. Rich in characterization. The case gets solved rather abruptly.

This is so good. I need to read more Elmore Leonard.

..... but the end times they go on and on and on.

bupkis

This is one brutal novel. Not easy to read. Going to be a while before I finish this one.