- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail; New Ed edition (24 Mar 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1852427825
- ISBN-13: 978-1852427825
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 650,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'Very nasty, very funny' Big Issue 'If this thriller was any more hard-boiled you'd be able to paint a face on it and roll it down the hill... Noir at its grungiest' Good Book Guide 'Fast-paced, tough and explosive - you may need a calming bromide standing by' Irish Times"
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?Everything hunky-dory? and then? Then I shot the cashier in the face. I guess it all began with Cassie.? Cooper had done his time for GBH. Now he was on the outside, he?d set up a legit business with Doc whom he?d met in prison. They called themselves ?Righteous Repo? and they even had an accountant. The Repo firm did good business but lacked a certain je ne sais quoi. And it wasn?t anywhere near as exhilarating as the bank jobs they did on the side. Cooper gets more excitement than he bargained for when Cassie walks into his life. Cassie likes poetry, guns and money, but more importantly she likes Cooper, and nothing and nobody is going to stand in the way of her getting what she wants. Just as with his acclaimed debut, Rilke on Black, Ken Bruen takes the reader on a one-way ride ? straight to the bitter end.
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One of Bruen's Finer Shorter Works, 8 Jan 2010
By Lawrence D. Zeilinger - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (Five Star Paperback) (Paperback)
This short little book has all the refinement that the new master of neo-noir, Irishman Ken Bruen, has brought to his considerable body of work. I've read almost all of it now and never have been disappointed. He is one of those rare authors whom once you begin reading one of his books, you'll probably try to read in a single sitting.
The protagonist in "Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice" is a reference to the anti-hero protagonist (as invariably Bruen's central chararacter always is) who after getting out of prison meets a real dingbat of a woman he befriends but proves to be nothing but bad news. Originally published about a decade ago, this little gem has finally made its way across the pond. Don't worry about reading the author's books in any certain order, except perhaps for the two trilogies. Very highly recommended. Bruen is a master of his craft and sets the benchmark for noir in the new millenium.
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To bide time between Taylor and Brant, this one more than works..., 30 Nov 2010
By Scott Hess "http://blindcamel.blogspot.com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (Five Star Paperback) (Paperback)
I'd devoured the Jack Taylor series but was loathe to start the Brant stuff until I could get 'em all in order. So while looking for something/anything standalone by Bruen to feed my appetite for his unique brand of dark literary Irish noir, I stumbled upon this one at Posnan Books in NYC (the finest little bookseller in the whole damn city, located smack-dab in Grand Central). I was not disappointed. Better than his TOWER collaboration with Coleman, and just as good or better than the Taylor stuff, this is vintage Bruen you can down in a sitting (or a swig). For the initiated, for sure, but surely worth the money/time. Recommended.
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