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Post by andydecker on Feb 20, 2023 15:10:53 GMT
Shaun Hutson - Exit Wounds (MacMillan, 2000, hc) The millennial novel of Shaun Hutson is a gangster story with lots of running around and even more gunplay. There are indeed many exit wounds. This is much more Don Westlake than Ted Lewis, and inevitably one character is named Parker. Hutson can do good action scenes, but on the whole this is just a violent shoot-em-up. No horror in sight, if you don't count thugs shooting people in public places.
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Post by ripper on May 19, 2023 8:48:30 GMT
I thought this one was a tad too long and needed a bit of tightening up. Agree that Hutson was good at writing the action scenes, and very bloody they are, too. Hutson is a big fan of Sam Peckinpah, and I thought there was a Wild Bunch vibe about the story, particularly in the all-out bloodbath climax.
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