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I’ve just started reading this, and it has me gripped already. I like the fact that it doesn’t mess about: no long-winded descriptions of the dawn in russet mantle clad walking over the hills and all that rot. Well, not so far at least. In fact, the beginning is so straightforward that I wondered for a moment if I was reading nonfiction.
Is it me, or is there some bleak humour here? A bloke has entered a millionaire’s home uninvited, and the owner has shot him. While he is lying in hospital, he tells the police officer interviewing him “I came here to search for my life.” The policeman responds: “You find it?”
Very deadpan I think.
I thought this would make a nice companion piece to Hard Rain Falling. The nice people at Penguin also sent me another book by the same author — Elmore Leonard (who, by the way, receives no mention in The Life of Crime) — La Brava. They must think I need cheering up.
There is a whole page of these modern classics in the genre of crime and espinage on Penguin’s website. Go check it out: Crime and Espionage.
