Slide

I have a journal entry from my drinking days that is in the exact same spirit as the first page and a half of this book! Only, I woke up on a couch in Oakland and there was a turtle crawling around the floor below me. Still…

“They called him Slide because he didn’t let anything slide, ever. He’d killed thirteen and counting. Counting like the ritual psycho he was.”

Vulgar. Sleazy. And hilarious! I loved this book and all the crazy shenanigans that both Angela and the M.A.X. get into! It's just crazy fun! And the two of them don't actually interact in this book! On one side we get Angela and Slide and a whole bunch of killing. And on the other, we get Max, or the M.A.X. as he labels himself, and his crack dealing delusions of show more grandeur (and "Scarface"!). Throw in a stripper and a poor, dumb kid from Alabama (and lots of sushi!), and you have the book titled "Slide". Definitely a fun read!

“We never forget and we never fooking forgive, you got that?” show less

Written with incredible comedic angst, this story is a lunatic ride through the streets of Brooklyn. It helps to have read the first book so you really have a feel for how these two sorry humans began, but you could also read this book by itself.

A year has gone by since internet tycoon Max asked his busty secretary Angela to find him a hit man to off his wife. Of course, Max never planned on hiring a psychopathic hit man and didn't realize that Angela was also banging this hitman.
Now, not only has the world caved in on Max, but he wakes hungover in a wifebeater Tshirt in some Nowheresville Alabama town. From there Max becomes the número uno crack dealer in Manhattan with his own sushi chef. This book is obviously in many ways a show more hysterical
parody and it almost makes you laugh out loud.

Meanwhile, Angela has been living in Ireland and showing off her assets, trying to land her meal ticket. Of course, she ends up playing house with a serial killer and probably the meanest serial killer you
ever heard of.

Great fun in this book as these two Crawl through crazy adventures and, yes, they do meet again in New York and there are definitely some fireworks when they meet. show less

This series is hilarious. This one isn’t as good as the first,(Bust). But the characters are a glorious clusterfuck of bad choices and delusional viewpoints.

Trashy pulp at its best

An OK read, the plot strands seemed more disconnected than in Bust. Didn't really seem to have the same kind of pivotal point in the story, I didn't really care about any character and on the whole didn't really find it all that entertaining.

Bit of a shame really.

I found this book to be terrible. And it was terrible because all of the other Bruen books I've read were so good. His books are ones that I go through in one sitting, but this book is almost as if he set out to parody himself and he did it badly. Stay away.

Entertaining noirish/pulpish read