Title: Okay But No Better
Review: This was first exposure to this author. The writing was competent so I'll try another one but this story left me kind of flat. It features a protagonist known only as "Driver" who grew up poor and abandoned but liked fast cars and drove them well. He becomes a movie stuntman and moonlights driving getaway cars for a series of low-life thieves. Unfortunately, when a book is populated almost exclusively by uneducated, uninteresting deadbeats with no redeeming virtues it's hard to care what happens to them or the book. The late Charles Willeford did deadbeats well; Mr. Sallis doesn't.
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