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Driven
James Sallis
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Description for Driven
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
Drive, James Sallis's critically acclaimed thriller about a movie stunt-man who moonlights as a getaway driver for the mob, became an award-winning film, directed by Nicholas Winding Refn, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan and introduced Sallis to a worldwide audience - this is the stunning sequel
Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful business back in Phoenix.
But walking down the street one day, he and his fiancee are attacked by two men and, while Driver dispatches both, his ... Read morefiancee is killed.
Sinking back into anonymity, aided by his friend Felix, an ex-gangbanger and Desert Storm vet, Driver realises that his past stalks him - and will not stop.
He has to turn and face it.
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About James Sallis
James Sallis has published sixteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the LA Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. He ... Read morehas received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature policière. Show Less
Reviews for Driven
Lean and lethal noir narrative
Mark Mills
The New York Times
Undiluted noir . . . dark, urgent and utterly compelling
Geoffrey Wansell
Daily Mail
Driven is a lean and nasty piece of neo-noir. I took my seat on page one and didn't get back up again until it ended (far too quickly.) ... Read moreAlways a pleasure to be in the hands of a master like James Sallis
Dennis Lehane Terse, brutal, poetic, perfectly wrought sequel. Come into this excellent novel cold, strap in, just hit the gas, and go
Publishers Weekly starred review
A mean, lean drive into darkness
Christopher Fowler
Financial Times
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