For my money it's probably The Seige of Trencher's Farm by
Gordon Williams.
Patrick King
--- jacquesdebierue <
jacquesdebierue@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "rictusaporia"
> <rictusaporia@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Personally, I prefer the tigers & dogs to
those
> who are presumptuous
> > enough to think that the simplistic
machinic
> application of brutal
> > force to any symptomatic human expression
of
> social ills is a thing
> > that can be morally justified (or called
"human").
>
>
> OK, so what are the greatest hardboiled/noir
tales
> of revenge ever
> written? Joe Gores wrote two very fine ones, _A
Time
> for Predators_
> and _Dead Man_. Cape Fear is another one. There
have
> got to be many
> more. Elmore Leonard?
>
> Best,
>
> mrt
>
>
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