I finished Willeford's "Sideswipe" this morning. It's easily
one of the great caper novels of all time. The Troy Louden
character is scary as hell, but Stanley Sinkiewizc's
affection for him is told touchingly. Their first
conversation in the cell is a great work of deep humour. I
just wonder whether Willeford knew Dan J. Marlowe's "Four for
the Money"
- one of the characters, the young guy who got crazed up in
the jail, reminds me of Troy Louden.
The rhythm of the robbing scene is accurate. As Bill Denton
earlier pointed out, Willeford doesn't need to speeden up the
pace or one-sentence paragraphs, but this way the killings
are more forceful. They seem more merciless.
It's clear that Willeford was moving away from the crime
genre with this one. "The Way We Die Now" was more like a
crime novel.
Juri
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