Title: an atmospheric and entertainingly silly crime story
Product review: 'Recoil' is in some ways classic Jim Thompson noir. The characters and dialogue are delicious 1950s trash. The women are floosies, the men are dopes. In 'Recoil' we have a lame brained ex-con who was released from prison courtesy of a guy with whom he had yet to meet. This guy turns out to be a nasty piece of work, and the company he keeps isn't much better. Soon the ex-con realizes something is wrong. Was he being set up just to crash and return to prison? All is revealed in the end. Yes, the ending is kind of goofy ... as if the author just smashed the words together arbitrarily. But this is not uncommon with Thompson novels.Bottom line: certainly not among the better Jim Thompson novels. Nonetheless it is the sort of fast read perfect for a rainy afternoon or for that long, boring flight.
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