| Author: Ken Bruen & Jason Starr | |
| Rating: 8 (Brian's Scale) | Reviewer: Brian |
| Genre: Mystery | Publisher:Hard Case Crime |
| Pages: 221 | Orig Pub Date: October, 2007 |
| Binding: Paperback | Cover Illus.: Richard B. Farrell |
Slide isn’t so much a black comedy as it is a dark raucous riot running rampant through the streets destroying storefronts and giggling like cracked-out banshees.
Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer and Angela’s back in Ireland, hooking up with a would-be record-setter�in the field of serial killing. Will their paths cross again? What do you think?
Slide is the second collaboration between Jason Starr and Ken Bruen and a sequel to last years Bust.
Since we are already familiar with the characters this book starts off running and never really lets up. What’s most readily apparent in this outing is that they are comfortable with the characters and that comfort lets them cut loose and just have fun. The characters, especially Max, become increasingly over the top and its hard to not laugh out loud at times. If there is a downside it would be that Angela is almost a non factor in the book, but she makes the most of her page time.
Apparently there is one more book to round out the Max/Angela trilogy to be published next year. It’s hard to imagine a more over the top book and it should be interesting to see what’s in store next.
Slide isn’t so much a black comedy as it is a dark raucous riot running rampant through the streets destroying storefronts and giggling like cracked-out banshees.
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