Title: New Territory for Vachss - Might Take One More to Get it Right
Product review: The prose, characterizations, and plotting here are up to Vachss's usual high standards, but this is the first time Vachss has attempted, so far as I know, a sprawling, multi-POV, omniscient narration; his wielding of this new tool is a little clumsy. Vachss has been working in first person mode for a long time. He seems a little uncomfortable with the omniscient narration and consequently overuses the tool of dialog-as-exposition. But that more of a writer's complaint than a reader's. If you like a good noir crime story, this is well worth your time.
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