Title: A Contender
Product review: Gave Ridley another chance after "Stray Dogs" which was an interesting 'treatment' not a novel. It served it's purpose. U-Turn is a tour de force. "Everybody Smokes in Hell" is a novel. If James Ellroy had a sense of humor and forgot about his mother for a couple of hundred pages, he just might be able to write a book like this. Ridley wants to be a noir writer and he has succeeded. Los Angeles seems to affect people with an inordinate amount of hostility. I'm certainly glad that Ridley's is on paper and not with a gun.
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