THE PRICE YOU PAY , by Aidan Truhen. (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $16.95.) When his elderly neighbor is killed, things start to go south for Jack Price, the slick cocaine dealer at the heart of this thriller. The book is “brilliant, a latticework of barbed jokes and subtle observations and inventive misbehaviors, a high-end thriller, relentlessly knowing, relentlessly brutal,” Charles Finch wrote in his review. “It reads like Martin Amis on mescaline.”
NO GOOD ALTERNATIVE: Volume 2 of Carbon Ideologies , by William T. Vollmann. (Penguin, $20.) The writer packs voice and passion into his examination of what we are […]
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