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'Breathtakingly good...With a supreme sense of place and marvellously drawn characters, especially Moon, there's that sense of destiny and despair that haunts the finest noir, including, of course, James M Cain's majestic The Postman Always Rings Twice. The comparison is entirely apt.' (Daily Mail )
'A backwoods drama that is part Crime and Punishment, part Deliverance, and all white-knuckled suspense...it packs a helluva punch' (People )
'A harrowing literary thriller...a powerful blend of love and violence, of the grotesque and the tender.' (New York Times Book Review )
'A terrific novel...you can hardly breathe while you're reading this book....his crisis evokes every palm-sweating, heart-stopping, seemingly undoable mistake you've ever made' (Los Angeles Times )
'A harrowing, high-voltage thriller...A gritty, claustrophobic blend of Jim Thompson and James Dickey.' (Publishers Weekly )
'Jones owns a fine writer's eye for the kind of details that matter.' (Washington Post )
'A backwoods drama that is part Crime and Punishment, part Deliverance, and all white-knuckled suspense...it packs a helluva punch' (People )
'A harrowing literary thriller...a powerful blend of love and violence, of the grotesque and the tender.' (New York Times Book Review )
'A terrific novel...you can hardly breathe while you're reading this book....his crisis evokes every palm-sweating, heart-stopping, seemingly undoable mistake you've ever made' (Los Angeles Times )
'A harrowing, high-voltage thriller...A gritty, claustrophobic blend of Jim Thompson and James Dickey.' (Publishers Weekly )
'Jones owns a fine writer's eye for the kind of details that matter.' (Washington Post )
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Mulholland Books presents... A SINGLE SHOT
Anyone's life can change in an instant. In Matthew F. Jones's acclaimed novel, one man's world is overturned with a single shot.
Trespassing on what was once his family's land, John Moon hears a rustle in the brush and fires. But instead of the deer he was expecting, he finds the body of a young woman, killed by his stray bullet. A terrible dilemma is made worse when he stumbles upon her campground - and the piles of drugs and money concealed there.
Moon makes his choice: he hides the corpse, and takes the cash. His decision will have consequences he can neither predict or control.
Anyone's life can change in an instant. In Matthew F. Jones's acclaimed novel, one man's world is overturned with a single shot.
Trespassing on what was once his family's land, John Moon hears a rustle in the brush and fires. But instead of the deer he was expecting, he finds the body of a young woman, killed by his stray bullet. A terrible dilemma is made worse when he stumbles upon her campground - and the piles of drugs and money concealed there.
Moon makes his choice: he hides the corpse, and takes the cash. His decision will have consequences he can neither predict or control.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Doesn't even come close to Deliverance,
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This review is from: A Single Shot (Hardcover)
The story is cheap, but is reasonally well written. It titilates with hard sex and sometimes unbelievable violence. There is no heart and soul in this, no resonation. By the end you feel sleezy, like you've been reading Hustler. Empty, vulgar thrills.
5.0 out of 5 stars
a superbly balanced well crafted novel,
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This review is from: A Single Shot (Paperback)
I really have no idea what some of the reviewers mean when they refer to the voyeuristic nature of the writing. The style adopted ensures that the horrific things that happen are viewed in a very objective way and are in no way exploitative. And quite where the 'hard sex' features I have no idea.Essentially, this is a really well constructed novel in the trailer trash noir genre. The writing is concise, telling the story of one man's descent into his own personal hell as a result of one (very tragic) error. Similarities with the excellent Daniel Woodrell( who writes in the same genre and wrote the foreword of this edition)will be rightly drawn. The book really warrants a wide audience-yes it deals with a very hard and difficult series of events, but it does so in a way that enables the story to take front stage(as it should) rather than exploiting the violent incidents to their full. The reader is left with a sense of inevitability and great sadness and a feeling that we are all the victims of the trail of outcomes from a single event-for the same theme in less extreme circumstances try 'The Slap' or 'Eleven'. This holds up very well by comparison with both.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A US Classic brought to the UK market,
By Gareth Wilson - Falcata Times Blog "Falcata T... - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: A Single Shot (Kindle Edition)
Mulholland continue to go from strength to strength as this release proves. Whilst a well-known US classic, this title is one that many in the UK may not have heard of let alone read, yet when you pick it up, it's a novel that will remain with you long after the final page has been turned.It has a great lead character, inner turmoil and of course a whole host of dilemma's that the character has to figure his way out of as he tries to cleanse his own conscience. Add to this some wonderfully descriptive prose, cracking pace and a hint of Lady Macbeth about the whole piece leaves this chilling story working its way through the reader's imagination longer than a cold winter's night. A must read.
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