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Bezig met laden... Holy Deathdoor Anthony Neil Smith
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Billy Lafitte (4)
Billy Lafitte is back... Back from the brink of death. Back on the Gulf Coast, his home stomping grounds, looking to reunite with his beloved one last time. Back in the sights of DeVaughn Lagrenade, a former gangbanger whose brother was gunned down by Lafitte and his partner during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Back in the mind of his biggest nemesis, Franklin Rome, who swings back into Lafitte's orbit in a most unusual way. Throw in a wild-eyed waitress looking for some violent kicks, an ambitious FBI agent slithering up the administrative ladder, a wannabe bad boy on Lafitte's tail with a young psychopath in the passenger seat, and you've got the makings of a rumble that only a prayer to Santa Muerte might help Billy survive. Cult crime-novelist Anthony Neil Smith is like a modern-day Charles Willeford. He doesn't just step over "the line," but drag-races past it and keeps on going. With this fourth novel in the Billy Lafitte's series, Smith raises the stakes once again for his damaged ex-cop turned stone cold killer. You'll root for Lafitte all the way, and wish you hadn't, and hope to hell he survives so you can do it all again. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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All that may make it seem like this book isn't that good, but that wouldn't be the case. Despite the total nihilism that reigns throughout, Smith creates his violent set pieces with such mastery that you just have to watch. Even better than a good train wreck. The Lafitte series has passed beyond the realm of anything that can be evaluated using any normal criteria. Some people will hate it, and not get past book one (Yellow Medicine). Others will persist and be happy to award the author his meager royalties--BECAUSE THE MAN CAN WRITE. No one can get more mileage out of the pain, suffering, and stupidity of his characters than Smith can, and in this book, there are certainly some characters. In addition to Lafitte, who is worse than ever and a menace to anyone around him, including some unfortunate innocents, we have a waitress-from-hell who falls in (mutual) love with the former Black Gulf Mob (BGM) member whose brother Lafitte killed before the opening of the first book. Although he has given up the mob life and become a successful professional gambler in the ensuing years, he still has to murder Lafitte. He should have read the first three books and moved to Las Vegas instead. The waitress is more murderous than he is, and after all, working at the Waffle House was a pretty dead end job....
We also catch up with Franklin Rome, the obsessive FBI agent who has been trying to catch Lafitte since the first book. I won't spoil that subplot, which is one of the weirder ones I've ever encountered. And there is more. You'll just have to find out for yourself.
So, I'm giving it 3 1/2 stars because despite the entertainment value and the amazing episodes, Smith can still do better, as when he injects a note of seriousness such as in Worm or his Adem & Mustafa series.
I'll be back for volume five, though, I can tell you that. (