Title: A breathless over-the-top read
Review: There's a quote from Elmore Leonard on the back of the jacket for Cul-de-Sac to the effect that "the man knows how to write." And he definitely does. But his adept turn of phrase sometimes gets the better of him as he tries to sound hard-boiled. (He's always using slightly caricature-worthy phrases like "gnarled corridors of pain")Despite that, Cul-de-Sac is a sprint to the finish, implausible yet exciting, an engaging and insubstantial twisted tale with gore by the bucket.
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