Dirty White Boys - Stephen Hunter

Once again I am writing this opinion on a book I haven't finished reading. I find this prevents me from ruining the ending for any future readers. I bought this book from 'The Book People' ( which is a no commitment book club who I have previously wrote about on Dooyoo ) in a pack of ten thrillers for a tiny price of ten pounds. Out of the ten thrillers which included Mario Puza's The Godfather, Lorenzo Carcaterra's Sleepers and James Lee Burke's A Stained White Radiance I chose Stephen Hunter's Dirty white Boys after I read the blurb which is as follows: 'Three convicts on the run with an arsenal of weaponry and only one ...  Read the complete review

Dirty white boys by Stephen Hunter This is a veritable helter skelter of a book. I have seldom come across a book so powerful in its characters and plot,there is even a mandatory twist at the end. Lamar Pye is a psychotic killer serving life in an American penitentiary, with him is his cousin Odel and a weedy wimp called Richard Peed, serving life for matricide. Lamar is enjoying a solitary shower when he is confronted by another con bent on murder, Lamar duly dispenses with him in a cruel and effective manner and realises that he will have to escape to save his own skin. He escapes taking his lumbering cousin, who is mentally retarded ...  Read the complete review