Bill,
Re your comment below:
> There was some talk about this book [Gores's
DEAD
> MAN]on the list a
> while before. I think
> folks said it wasn't Gores' best, and I'd agree.
I
> may just drop it. He
> switches narrative focus a fair bit, and not in
that
> percolating way he
> has in the DKA books. It's in the INTERFACE
vein,
> according to the back
> cover (and INTERFACE is damned good), but I'd
say
> it's got too many
> cliched movie script techniques.
I personally liked it very much. But I think your point about
it's reading like a movie script is well-taken. The previous
Gores book that DEAD MAN most reminded me of was not
INTERFACE (despite the fact that both books feature PIs as
the protagonists) but A TIME OF PREDATORS, Gores's first,
Edgar-winning novel.
The plotline of DEAD MAN, a man whose family (in this case
there's only his wife) is wiped out by criminals and who then
trains himself to seek revenge, is basically a reworking of
the situation in PREDATORS.
PREDATORS is set entirely in the Bay Area (though not in The
City itself). Though not named, institutions like Stanford
University and College of San Mateo are used as settings.
It's a corker!
JIM DOHERTY
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