![]() ![]() What follows is a fast-paced, tense, and very gory narrative about the search for answers, bizarre cults, mutilation, and violence. The job, which Klein is not entirely willing to take, seems easy enough, but everyone involved seems to have a secret agenda and the way they keep him in the dark makes it look like solving the crime is the opposite of what they want. ![]() ![]() The group wants him to find out who murdered their leader. ![]() Ripe with brutality and the kind or religious undertones that can often be found in Evenson’s work, Last Days is a noir/horror/literary hybrid that deserves to be named among the author’s best, and that in itself is truly high praise.Įx-detective Kline is still recovering from his last case when members of a dark sect that believes amputation brings you closer to God kidnap him. Furthermore, it’s a narrative that demonstrates how hilarity and snarky dialogue can be used effectively even when a story is pushing at the edges of its genre’s darkest, most emotionally gritty and grotesque boundaries. Brian Evenson’s Last Days is simultaneously one of the greatest send-ups of the hardboiled detective novel and of the best celebrations of the brutal, violent, and mysterious nature of the genre. ![]()
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