Oh what fun!
Reads like an Elmore Leonard in that i never knew where the story was going to take me. Random events and pure, believable, chance cropped up to throw the plans of the principal characters.
Visually this could very well be a Quentin Tarantino film; the violence is quick, brutal and unexpected. There were great gobs of dark, dark humor in here too. So if you like either Leonard or Tarantino this book is for you.
The good news is that it's the first in a trilogy.
So, what's it about? One of the most unlikable guys in literature decides he wants to kill his wife because he certainly doesn't want a divorce and give up half his money. Through his mistress he hires an assassin who calls himself Popeye. And that's the only part of his plan to goes as he wants it. From then on the book is like an amusement park ride - you just don't know what's going to happen next.
There is nothing I love more than reading about an idiot's life as it starts to spiral out of control and how he deals with it.
This was great fun and I'm already reading the sequel -
Slide.
