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Add the first question. It would help to read some of Guthrie's other stuff with Pierce to have a little background. My reviews for anything Guthrie writes are positive.
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He might be my favorite Author writing today. Looking forward to new stuff in !!!! British noir about a hard man. Mar 07, Samantha added it. Easy, that is, if you don't mind reading a load of profanities. After a bit, you want out.
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But then this is not stupid daytime TV, where you can just switch to a sunny stretch. Characters are battered, emotions are raw, and rawness is what makes the tag NOIR get to you here. It pays off big time to read that one. Pearce is that kind of guy who most of the time remembers that being halfway nice is OK, and not an uncontrollable annoyance like some nervous tic.
He went through much crap and has placed hard times behind him, just in order to embrace with stoic demeanor some new trouble. Pace is Guthries forte. Hours, minutes, seconds seem to move back and forth and bounce. Time is nasty, and so present in this tight prose that it appears to belong to the cast like a fully developed character. The story roughly 70 percent tough misery, 17 percent nihilism and a kick of 13 percent of what could possibly pass as smudged goodness unfolds with simplicity, and drags the reader along.
Pearce and his crippled dog get involved in an ex-girlfriends catch 22 serious threat, loan shark, dead of night deadline, two shaken, fatherless children — that kind of thing. Reluctantly he makes it his mission to help, but things quickly spin out of control in a fusion of night and nastiness; even a second, less battered Ex of Pearce fails to get things off the dark track.
Guthrie never makes the grave mistake to confuse misery with tragedy. He does not get too fancy about violence, but just makes sure all protective screens are removed: Neither becoming a fan, nor buying a pair of gloves lets the reader off the hook. Dec 22, J. Unfortunately, I didn't find it very mysterious. The characters were well drawn and entertaining, though some of the dialogue felt forced.
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The plot felt contrived as well, possibly because it was predictable. Then again I've been 're-reading Rec Stout and am writing a cozy novella myself, so that may have made me a more critical reader. I just didn't think it was a great mystery read. At the outset we meet Pearce, a man who trouble seems to follow around.
Out taking his dog for a quiet walk he gets involved in a 'road rage' incident, moments later he meets his ex girlfriend, Julie. Last time he saw her she ripped Pearce off. Julie tells Pearce she's in trouble, she owes a loan sharp 20 grand. He's not sure whether to trust Julie but once she's kidnapped at gun point he starts to change his mind. This is a v well written novella, cleverly done by running the action against the At the outset we meet Pearce, a man who trouble seems to follow around.
This is a v well written novella, cleverly done by running the action against the clock. The characters are strong, the dialogue excellent. Pick it up, read it.
Kill Clock is the first book I've read by Allan Guthrie. I'll definitely be reading more. This novella starts out hard-assed and ends harder. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. While walking his dog Hilda, Pearce has an encounter with a bully that results in property damage. Pearce has strong reasons to distrust Julie, who disappeared after accepting his expensive engagement ring, but he is afraid the police may be looking for him, so he--and Hilda--get in the car with Julie and her two toddlers.
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Julie needs Pearce's help; a loan shark has given her a specific time to repay twenty thousand pounds or she and her children will be killed. He has, she explains, given her a reason to believe he means it. Suspecting a scam, Pearce keeps telling himself he won't be sucked in again by her. But, before he knows it, he is up to his eyebrows in puke, a car he can barely drive, two tired and cranky children, and two of the toughest hard men--the Banks brothers-- in author Guthrie's oeuvre. Allan Guthrie's novels are darkly humorous and often shockingly violent, and Kill Clock is no exception.
Many of the characters that people these stories are evil personified. But others, like ex-con and occasional PI Gordon Pearce, are innately decent men who show us, through their treatment of the innocents of the world--dogs and children, old people, the maimed and helpless--that cruelty is as abhorrent to them as to us. Wounded in body and spirit by the death of his sister and his mother, Pearce now keeps himself to himself, caring only about Hilda, a male Dandie Dinmont three-legged terrier which he named for his mother.
But sometimes he cannot help getting involved in matters he knows will turn out badly, as in Julie's case. His effort to save her, while protecting the children and Hilda, is terrible and wonderful-- suspenseful, absurd, shocking, and satisfying. And his interaction with Julie's children as well as the dialogue and behaviors of the children themselves--is, perhaps, the best part of Kill Clock. Guthrie has created a great character in the engaging, reluctantly admirable, and somewhat mysterious Pearce, who made his debut in Two-Way Split.
Tough, a little frightening, always dependable once he has committed, a man who loves his dog: I look forward to Guthrie's next Pearce and Hilda outing. Meanwhile, I highly recommend Kill Clock. Read it and be glad. Allan Guthrie was one of my first ebook reads Since then I have been steadily contributing money to Amazon's shareholders.
I believe I read from his website that this book was written as part of a literacy program to encourage reading for those overcoming illiteracy; similar to Mathew Reilly's short book Hell Island. Fine with me, I will take a quick head shot any time. It is in fact a simple quick read in the hard boiled pulp fiction genre. Luckily I have some Scottish friends so I understand this is part of a Scottish brand of fiction, otherwise no one would ever visit Scotland unless they were wearing a full suit of medieval amour. Kill Clock was written as a slice of hard life depicting those caught on the underside of the working class.