The Max (Hard Case Crime)
by Ken Bruen, Jason Starr
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Author: Jason Starr, Ken BruenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09
ISBN: 0843959665
Number of pages: 220
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
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Book Review: A giddy masterpiece of warped noir brilliance
Summary: 5 Stars
Take a look at that cover. Try to imagine any possible way that the story inside could live up to that potential. Now imagine that the story inside not only meets that potential, but takes it out for filet mignon and escargot, takes it out dancing, seduces it tenderly and takes it home, then slashes its throat, straps its corpse the roof of the Packard and goes on a cross-country rampage, cackling all the way.
After schooling the planet how to write darkly hilarious, black as 3 AM cop coffee world-class noir with BUST and SLIDE, Bruen and Starr blow the roof off with this one, which continues the deluded misadventures of businessman-turned-dealer Max Fisher, now doing time at Attica, and his ex-fiancee, the occasionally homicidal, insanely well-endowed, knocked-around-by-life and totally sympathetic Angela Petrakos.
You can read the book for its jet-fuelled plot, which grabs you instantly by the throat on page one, or the characters, all of whom are as addictive as Max's crack habit and never fail to feel lived-in and totally real, even when (and sometimes especially when) they get wiped out mere pages after their introduction. Or you can read it for the uniquely jazzed up narrative voice that Bruen and Starr cook up between them like a couple of celebrity chefs ramped up on equal quantities of speed, ether and gunpowder, turned loose in a noir kitchen stuffed to the rafters with Irish whiskey and old Gold Medal paperbacks. When these guys get together, a kind of goofily instictive brilliance wafts off them like steam off the hood of a getaway car. Grab hold of this one and hold on -- it doesn't get any better.
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