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Borneo Jimmy posted:Anybody here familiar with Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm books? (Not the movies) I know they're spy fiction but the style is closer to John MacDonald than John Le Carre. I read them all growing up, but have only reread the first couple as an adult. They're a touch darker than John D. MacDonald to me, but similar in some ways. Travis McGee is likely to leave the girl, Matt Helm is more likely to kill the girl. edited for added content. I've been rereading John Connolly lately. His stuff is like if the supernatural elements of James Lee Burke were the whole point, or if F. Paul Wilson was poetic. He has all the parts though, ex-cop P.I., alcohol, sociopathic partners, tortured conflicted protagonist. 1969 baby fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Ornamented Death posted:I love Connolly's books, but they are just unrelentingly bleak. When the series started to feel like reading a catalog of atrocities, I took a break and read some Henning Mankel.
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Jun 12, 2015 05:23
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TomViolence posted:While we're on the subject of unrelentingly bleak catalogues of atrocity, I finally finished David Peace's Red Riding Quartet. Dunno if it really fits into the detective genre, though, since it's so grimdark and nihilistic that nothing really gets answered or resolved in a satisfactory sense and it's written in such a borderline-incomprehensible stream of consciousness style. Nonetheless, can anyone recommend me something similar in tone? The only comparable stuff I've read in the crime genre's a bit of James Ellroy's earlier output. Never heard of him, but it sounds like my kind of thing. I've added him to my want list, and will report back eventually. Maybe early Ken Bruen like the White Trilogy could fit there in a pulpy, less artistic way.
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Jun 17, 2015 19:18
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try Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder series.
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