- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; 1st edition (25 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333735978
- ISBN-13: 978-0333735978
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,329,765 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Armed robber Frank Newton is looking for one last big haul to set up his retirement. When Frank discovers that he's just turned over crime boss Billy Parker, his retirement cruise looks set to be a quick sea trip attached to a concrete boot. But then Parker makes him an offer he literally cannot refuse. All Frank and his gang of ageing mobsters have to do is take down 'Papa' Ernie Codling, a vicious Yardie gangleader who is challenging Parker's rule. Caught between the two most violent gangs on the manor and with a vengeful police officer on his trail, Frank has to try and buck impossible odds just to stay alive.Hutson, the bad boy of British thriller writers, serves up his twenty-first novel - and a lacklustre affair it is. Perhaps, like his protagonists, Huston is suffering a mid-life crisis because this offering displays none of the verve, energy or downright twisted imaginings of his earlier works such as Assassin or Spawn. Never the most subtle of writers, Huston's saving grace has always been his over the top enthusiasm for his work, but here he uses cliches like blunt instruments in an attempt to stun the reader into acceptance of a strictly 'by the numbers' gangland caper novel. The cast is too large and too bland to make any striking impression; maudlin sentimentality replaces motivation and mindless violence, culminating in the predictable but pointless bloodbath finale, is used to pad out a plot that is wafer thin. Any time a deeper, more meaningful issue is touched upon, such as Frank and his wife's desperate need to have a child, it is swept aside in favour of excessive and guilt-free bloodletting. If you are not already a Hutson fan, this will not convert you. However, if all you want is lots of bad language and masses of gratuitous and lovingly-detailed violence, this is the book for you. (Kirkus UK)
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Small-time crook Frank Newton pulls off a robbery that will give him financial independence - but half of it belongs to a London gang boss who knows who he is. In return for his life, he must eliminate a new Yardie chief while evading a tenacious police team.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is just like all of his others, you will keep turning the pages until the last one, and wont even realise you havent stopped since you opened it!
Very addictive writer very addictive horror!
Very Graphic!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is one of Shaun's best books, in my opinion. He manages to combine human emotion with absolute gut renching terror.
The characters are introduced and explored as the book develops, compelling the reader to turn the page. As always Shaun descrbes horror in a way that leaves little to the imagination, not unlike 'Assassin' in this respect.
I read this book in a weekend, what a ride. The film of the same name is an insult.
Read this book and hold tight to your stomach for an amazing ending.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Shaun Hutson seems to have developed a wonderful feel of continuity. You pick up one of his books and you're guaranteed the intrigue, action, suspense and plot twists that are a mark of a good writer. The only thing counting against Shaun is that nobody seems to have picked up - yet - just how well his books would transfer to the silver screen, and this is no exception! As graphic in violence as it is as simple in plot, the time seems to fly when you read one of his books. Come on film producers...have a bit of courage and pick up a Hutson!
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A tense and exciting piece of fiction
I've almost finished reading this book and what a delight to read it has been. Exit wounds has everything I've come to expect from a Shaun Hutson novel; suspense, guns, gore and... Read more
Published on 7 Mar 2003 by banythehat
the undisputed master of terror is back!
When small time crook Frank Newton and his guys discover that their latest heist hit the wrong payroll van, it is already too late. Read more
Published on 4 July 2002 by napoleonwilson
Excellent
As a loyal & long standing Shaun Hutson fan, this is an excellent book. It is by no means his worst as other reviews seem to think, infact I could not put it down. Read more
Published on 15 Aug 2001 by nproffitt@millfield-partnership.co.uk
A rather poor thriller
Having read all Hutson`s books, I can clearly state that this is one of his weaker efforts. It`s poorly written, unoriginal and just doesn`t have the same excitement as some of his... Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2001
Try better next time.
Has Hutson lost his flair, his imagination or his ability to scare people shi..? If 'Exit Wounds' is anything to go by I think so. Read more
Published on 14 May 2001
Not one of his best.
I've read all of Shaun's books but this is the first one I've put away unfinished. Reason? All the one-liners of text. Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2001
Brilliant
would give this book 6 stars if possible Hutson seems to have upped a gear I didnt think that was possible! Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2000 by CVH
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