![]() ![]() Just to remind us how tough they are and that we are reading Chester fucking Himes! Plus Grave Digger and Coffin Joe, on their way to the crime scene, fire a few bullets to a car of local mobster. ![]() In the shooting involved a juvenile delinquent also gets killed (!!!!) and an innocent passerby is wounded by a stray bullet (!!!!!). Starts extremely violently (and of course incredibly cool) by a guy attacking another customer in a public bar with a knife (!), getting his arm chopped off (!!) by the bartender and soon after being shot in the middle of street in the broad daylight (!!!) while trying to escape another crazed customer. Unless you count use of brutal force as a standard police procedure. True, our main protagonists are cops but there's not much of the procedure here. But Real Cool Killers is light years away from those formulaic books. I'm not really into police procedural stuff, at least not in Ed McBain's 87th precinct kind of (too) methodological investigations. Alpha-60 blog simply must have few entries of his and what better way to start a series than with this cult novel. While reading the Blond Faith I remembered another master of the urban black hard-boiled crime, the one and only Chester Himes. ![]()
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