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Title: Steven KIng, yes; Hard Case Crime, no.
Review: Let me start by saying that I LIKE Steven King. I have read everything he has ever written, starting with Salem's Lot years ago, and this is vintage Steven King. The two old geezers in Colorado Kid could easily have been transplanted from Milt Crossen's store in Salem's Lot.The problem is that this was not supposed to be vintage Steven King, it was supposed to be vintage pulp fiction. The pulp fiction genre is clearly defined by the likes of Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm and Micky Spilane's Mike Hammer and, even back before that by every rawhide-tough cowboy that ever graced a Louis L'Amour western.So, if you sat down to read a Steven King book, you got up satisfied, but if you sat down to read a pulp fiction novel... well, then you got up disappointed. Too much Steven King, not enough pulp fiction.
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