Title: Pure psycho-noir
Product review: This one surprised the hell out of me. At first, it seems to be a rather typical P.I. story, featuring a stalwart hero with an overdeveloped sense of justice a la Mike Hammer. But slowly, over the first half of the book, Zeltserman starts revealing ugly little bits of the "hero"'s psychosis... and by the time you're halfway through FAST LANE you begin to realize you're reading about a real messed-up bastard. As it all plays out toward the inevitable end and Johnny Lane's predicament gets worse and worse, you almost want to cover your eyes. This is pure psycho-noir here, expertly told, as if Jim Thompson or Charles Willeford had taken a stab at a Mike Shayne type novel. Beautiful and terrible.
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