Chan,
Re your comments on DIRTY WHITE BOYS below:
"I also suggest Stephen Hunter's Dirty White Boys, which is
more heavy on the redneck than the noir. Sure, Bud Pewtie (a
truly great redneck name) is a Sheriff of a rural town, but
he's an alcoholic cop, having an affair with his partners
wife while his life swirls out of is control, which qualifies
as noir. Bud takes on a twisted redneck escaped convict named
Lamar Pye and his deranged, apparently inbred brother Odell,
The book turns into a Terminator-esque series of shoot-outs
at the end, but in the early parts when the book focuses on
Lamar's prison story it's entertaining and very noir."
I won't get into whether or not it's noir, or even whether or
not it's redneck. It's certainly hard-boiled, and,
consequnetly, fair game on this list.
However, I will point out that Bud isn't a sheriff. He's a
state trooper.
I'll also mention that, as a police procedural, the specific
sub-genre into which the book falls, DIRTY WHITE BOYS, though
it has an un-put-down-able quality I can only marvel at and
envy (as does another of White's southern fried cop novels,
HOT SPRINGS, in which the children who will grow up to be the
bad guys in DWB make a cameo appearance), makes a lot of
inexcusable errors about Oklahoma's law enforcement structure
that even this California boy who's only been to the state
once spotted right off.
JIM DOHERTY
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