- Paperback: 544 pages
- Publisher: No Exit Press (Jun 30 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1901982424
- ISBN-13: 978-1901982428
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 422 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Ex-convict Bunker proved he could write a strong, dark thriller with his first book, No Beast So Fierce. For his latest effort, he returns to the same kind of story -- smart but doomed ex-cons doing the only kind of thing they know how to do. Troy Cameron came from a wealthy Beverly Hills family before reform school and San Quentin knocked off some of the polish. Now he has linked up with a pair of psychopathic colleagues to prey on other criminals. In Bunker's hands, the material takes on a great deal of energy and even sympathy for the devils.
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From Publishers Weekly
Based on the suspense he generates in his fourth novel, it's easy to see why Bunker, an ex-con, has acquired such diverse admirers as Quentin Tarantino (who cast him as Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs) and William Styron (who contributes an introduction to this novel). This time around, the narrator is Troy Cameron, an upper-class Beverly Hills boy turned hardened criminal, who emerges from stints at reform school and San Quentin to join up with his buddies, Gerald "Mad Dog" McCain and Diesel Carson, in a haphazard scheme to steal from pimps, hustlers and other fellow criminals. Their first crime, a robbery in which they shake down a major L.A. drug dealer, goes smoothly, but the heat increases on their second assignment, a revenge crime in which a Mexican prison lord offers them a fortune to kidnap the baby of a former companion who has shown him disrespect. The kidnapping is complicated by Troy's growing discomfort when he discovers that the erratic Mad Dog has murdered his former girlfriend and her child in cold blood. Bunker's plot bears some resemblance to those of his earlier novels (No Beast So Fierce; Animal Factory), but his storytelling is once again first-rate as the botched kidnapping leads to a series of violent confrontations that produce a dark but satisfying ending. What distinguishes Bunker from other crime writers is his ability to convey the compassion dormant within his violent criminals without resorting to excess luridness, sympathy or moralism. Bunker has a top-notch screenplay to his credit (Runaway Train); this powerful tale seems tailor-made for Hollywood success as well.
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Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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TWO NIGHTS ALONE IN A ROOM WITH A PAIR OF ONE - ounce jars of pharmaceutical cocaine made Mad Dog McCain live up to his nickname. Read the first page
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4.0 out of 5 stars
nitty gritty,
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This review is from: Dog Eat Dog: A Novel (Paperback)
Like Edward Bunker I am a writer and an ex-convict and I am here to tell you that no one writes about drug addicts, criminals, and outlaws better than Eddie Bunker. Why hasn't Hollywood snapped up the film rights to this novel?
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thrilling,
By Christian Jorgensen (Denmark) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dog Eat Dog: A Novel (Paperback)
With Dog Eat Dog Edward Bunker shows us his talent for writing down-and-dirty, there are no keeping the punches in this shocking novel about three friends and ex-cons that come up with a plot to rip off other criminals. The book does side slightly with the criminals, but it does not glorify them as misunderstood good guys, it shows them as mean and evil at times, but also let us see that they are human, and that not all the bad that is inside them is of their own doing. Bunker might not master the language as well as seaseoned crime-fiction writers, but this adds to the authenticity of the book too, making it seem more "there", while it leads us towards the ending. The book is a character study too, and we see some truly terrible characters here, even a few without any "good" sides. It is a brutal and shocking book, and not for every one.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Harrowing, top flight novel stay with you...,
By Frank Smith (Bluff City, KS USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dog Eat Dog: A Novel (Paperback)
This book was so gripping, I read it (blush) in a single sitting at a bookstore. Never bought it. The ending could have been a bit more plausible, but I woke up the next two mornings having dreamt about it. Whew!
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