>The book that comes immediately to mind for me is THE
AX.
I never thought I would do this, but...
I think THE AX fits the platonic ideal of what a contemporary
noir novel should be and I liked it enough to read it in
single sitting. Still, it does not strike me as particularly
hardboiled. It has so many similarities to the best books by
Jason Starr, or even the current R-A rave du jour, The
Confession, that it seems like a straight noir to me.
Books like these are, to my thinking, heirs to Killer Inside
of Me and before that (I think) the first-person confession
stories of Edgar Allen Poe
(which I haven't read since the 7th grade).
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