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Take four ne'er-do-wells: a 28-year-old ex-public schoolboy who can't bear the idea of setting down; Suzy the Black Widow, who has a deliciously flat stomach and drives like she's breathing through the carbs; Brady the Reservoir Dogs fetishist; and Chico the fat Portuguese waiter. Add some plastic guns, the IRA and a white Merc with fins and you have a plan. What plan? The plan to walk into Michael Winner's private bank and walk out with half a million quid. Fast, clever, stylish, funny and utterly compulsive, this is a first novel with everything.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Derivative heist story populated by 2D characters,
By Greshon (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A White Merc With Fins (Paperback)
I'm getting rid of this book so I thought I'd write it a farewell review before it leaves. It's James Hawes' 1996 debut novel, a story about a heist, set in London. I read it 8 years ago and it provided very little amusement and not many enduring memories. I can't believe it seems to have received so much positive praise. I thought it was highly derivative (it published 2 years after Pulp Fiction and 5 years after Reservoir Dogs and it tries to bring their action and mood to a grittier, grimmer London) and full of cliched, two-dimensional characters. I'd say there's also something of Hornby in there as well but, again, this is of a lower order.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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A White Merc With Fins,
By Rhys M Watkins (Gloucester, GLOS United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A White Merc With Fins (Paperback)
A fast paced romp through the wasteland of postgraduate disenchantment in modern Britain. This is an addictive read which never fails to entertain. A thriller and love story with plenty of hardnosed attitude and the seedy realism of the big city.It's stuffed full of delightfully bizarre characters all hustling the narrative towards the finale, the heist. Ironically an attempt to violently remove money from Michael Winner's bank. We should be so lucky.Those of us slowly metamorphosing into the bald man in the bedsit had better watch out. There are plenty of seditious thoughts seeping out here to unsettle us all.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolutely brilliant....,
By lckeating@yahoo.com (New York City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A White Merc With Fins (Paperback)
This is a fantastic read. Hawes writes very poignantly about what it's like to feel lost in your late twenties. If you're one of those people who, like me, still have no clue what you want to do with your life (even though everyone thinks you should), then many passages of the book will resonate deeply. I honestly don't see how anyone could find the book boring...the only explanation I have is that the plot may seem a bit familiar to those now aquainted with the Lock Stock genre of movies, but Hawes wrote the book before all of that. I think it's definitely a worthwhile read.
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