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I'm going to have to re-evaluate Donald Westlake. I'd read a few of his stories here and there and found them too jovial and lighthearted. I like my noir humorless. I like my hard-boiled HARD. If there has to be laughter, it should be the mean-spirited laughter of a Charles Willeford novel. So I fig......more

Take away everything a man has and all that's he's got left is revenge. Ray Kelly is just an average, ordinary guy. Certainly no criminal. At least not until he's betrayed and robbed of everything dear to him, leaving him with only one purpose. Revenge. Not fueled by anger or fury, but only a sense......more

Ok , I don't have a shelf for crime or hard crime or noir, all of which are genres this book has been allocated in. It's a story of vengeance, plain and simple. A short read that started out with a bang, a big twist comes in the middle and then for me it begins to sputter. Too much description of da......more

Violence, vengeance, rage and revenge. Through a blood shattered window we see Ray Kelly's life unfold as it almost ends. Discharged from the Air Force, he's home and reunited with his father only to loose him in a seemingly unprovoked hail of hell-fire. Punctured with lead, Ray's father's death ope......more

A man's father is murdered and he finds out he was connected to the mob and seeks vengeance for his death. Early Westlake, but still very good. Recommended.......more