Two-Way Split
by Allan Guthrie | 
Lemons Never Lie
by Richard Stark | 
The Wounded and the Slain
by David Goodis | 
Hell on Church Street
by Jake Hinkson | 
No Beast So Fierce
by Edward Bunker | 
The Outlaw Album
by Daniel Woodrell | 
The Animal Factory
by Edward Bunker | 
Two For The Money
by Max Allan Collins | 
Calibre
by Ken Bruen | 
Dead Street
by Mickey Spillane | 
Arab Jazz
by Karim Miske | 
Dutch Uncle
by Peter Pavia | 
A Narrow Return
by Faith Martin | 
Shella
by Andrew Vachss | 
Hard Rain Falling
by Don Carpenter | 
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
by George V. Higgins | 
In a Lonely Place
by Dorothy B. Hughes | 
The Know
by Martina Cole | 
A Swollen Red Sun
by Matthew McBride | 
Frank Sinatra in a Blender
by Matthew McBride |
Fast One is possibly the toughest tough-guy and most brutal gangster story ever written. Set in Depression Los Angeles it has a surreal quality that is positively hypnotic. It is the saga of gunman-gambler Gerry Kells and his dipso lover S. Granquist (she has no first name), who rearrange the LA underworld and "disappear" in an explosive climax that matches their first appearance. The pace is incredible and relentless and the complex plot with its twists and turns defies summary. One Los Angeles reviewer called the book 'a ceaseless welter of bloodshed'; while the Saturday Review of Literature thought it 'the hardest-boiled yarn of a decade.'Fast One is possibly the toughest tough-guy and most brutal gangster story ever written. Set in Depression Los Angeles it has a surreal quality that is positively hypnotic. It is the saga of gunman-gambler Gerry Kells and his dipso lover S. Granquist (she has no first name), who rearrange the LA underworld and "disappear" in an explosive climax that matches their first appearance. The pace is incredible and relentless and the complex plot with its twists and turns defies summary. One Los Angeles reviewer called the book 'a ceaseless welter of bloodshed'; while the Saturday Review of Literature thought it 'the hardest-boiled yarn of a decade.'