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No Beast So Fierce (Paperback)

by Edward Bunker (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: No Exit Press (25 April 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1874061092
  • ISBN-13: 978-1874061090
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 337,492 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Quite simply, one of the great crime novels of the past 30 years; perhaps the best novel of the Los Angeles underworld ever written."

William Styron, from the introduction
"Edward Bunker {is} among the tiny band of American prisoner-writers whose work possesses integrity, craftsmanship and moral passion...an artist with a unique and compelling voice."

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4.0 out of 5 stars Guy Ritchie - you've been rumbled!, 9 Feb 2001
By A Customer
Someone once told Guy Ritchie that to be regarded as a genuine artist he should stop making gangster films and move into something a bit more original. Not so, Edward Bunker, who seems to gain credibility and ooze originality with every novel he publishes.

No Beast so Fierce is at first exactly what you would expect from an ex-con who has considered his past present and future from behind a couple of inches of iron. But where Mr Madonna fails with his pseudo-don't f*ck with me persona, Bunker is right on point and there's no mistaking the fact that his fiction is more from the back of the cell than of the mind.

In Max Dembo, Bunker creates a con who you know is a good guy really, but just a good guy who'll blow your head off if you get in his way or he feels like it. He trips from one sniff of criminality to another, picking up a woman and and picking off a cop, before finally returning to the position he is in when the book begins.

Bunker's novel is then a realistic, if depressing exploration of how we condition those we imprison, and how they, in turn, struggle to meet with the separate set of rules we impose when they are returned to 'normal' society.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good crime story and criminal biography rolled into one., 7 Dec 2000
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This gripping insight into the American criminal life is so convincing that it the reader has to be reminded that it is a novel. Written as Bunker was being sentenced to his third term in prison, it clearly demonstrates the difficulties facing ex prisoners on release, who lacking any other opportunities are almost inevitably drawn back into crime. In so doing, it explores the both the American attitude to ex cons in maintaining this position but also refreshingly admits the role of the criminal psyche in the constant need for one more big hit.

Bunker's intelligent writing style, juxtaposed against his almost indifferent attitude to violent crime, provides a stark contrast and the book highlights the fragility of the inter relationships within the criminal communities where trust is an occupational hazard.

That Bunker finally broke free from a life of crime through this book reinforces its quality- definitely worth a read.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Criminal Mind, 9 Jul 2002
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This book is an excellent read and worthy of the praise heaped on it. Bunker's inside knowledge is superb and he captures the relationship between the criminal world and the outside world superbly. His heavy cynicism is refreshing though the ending is a bit contradictory.
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