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Imprint: No Exit Press
Category: Crime & mystery
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 was originally a collection of stories featuring the gambler/gunman Kells. The tales ran in Black Mask magazine from 1931-1932
Category: Crime & mystery
RRP: £4.95
ISBN: 9780948353031
Published: August 28, 1987
Extent: 304 pages
RRP: £3.95
ISBN: 9780948353048
Published: August 28, 1987
Extent: 304 pages
RRP: £4.99
ISBN: 9781843444060
Published: May 28, 2014
‘Some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled manner’
Raymond Chandler
‘Fast One is a swell steer; it is a dandy of a gangster story’
Paul Kane , newmysteryreader.com
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 was originally a collection of stories featuring the gambler/gunman Kells. The tales ran in Black Mask magazine from 1931-1932
"Fast One" was written by Paul Cain.