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jakewritesbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Perhaps because I knew what I was expecting this time with Jason Starr and his venal characters, I wound up liking this one more than his other two efforts. It helps that this one focused on one singular guy, a total moron who treats everyone around him as disposable. Also, while even the bleakest of NYC mysteries can still make the city sound amazing, Starr does a great job at treating it like an Odyssean hellscape for his doomed characters.
psteve's review against another edition
3.0
In its way like some of the best of Jim Thompson, it's a first-person story of horse racing, robbery, gambling, and murder. The main character is thoroughly despicable, if not insane like some of Thompson's heroes. The book pulls you through it, and the characters are pretty sharply drawn.
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