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The Gauntlet
He was a cop who got the job done. She was a hooker set up by both the law and the mob to have a job done on her. They were two people with nothing left to do but RUN THE GAUNTLET!!!
- GenresThrillerMedia Tie In
236 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1977
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April 25, 2020
3.5/5
All I want out of a movie novelization is good, clear writing that isn't quite pedestrian, and maybe a few extra scenes that didn't make the final cut. Sometimes novelizations surprise me by adding extra depth to the characters, as was the case in Alan Dean Foster's Alien novelizations, and is also the case here with Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack's novel version of their screenplay. They'd already written The Gauntlet once before, and now they've expanded upon it, adding plenty of extra scenes (mostly flashbacks to earlier times) and starting it with a scene that wasn't in the film, but was explained later through expository dialogue. For the most part, it's well-written, with a few errors here and there and a sometimes gross overuse of the comma. The titular 'gauntlet' scene was a bit underwhelming in book form but no matter, this is one of the finer novelizations I've read, and it was engaging enough to keep me hooked, providing neither too much detail nor a stunning lack of it.
Recommended for anyone who enjoyed the movie, or just likes reading chase novels in general. Fans of David Morrell might get a kick out of this, too.
All I want out of a movie novelization is good, clear writing that isn't quite pedestrian, and maybe a few extra scenes that didn't make the final cut. Sometimes novelizations surprise me by adding extra depth to the characters, as was the case in Alan Dean Foster's Alien novelizations, and is also the case here with Michael Butler and Dennis Shryack's novel version of their screenplay. They'd already written The Gauntlet once before, and now they've expanded upon it, adding plenty of extra scenes (mostly flashbacks to earlier times) and starting it with a scene that wasn't in the film, but was explained later through expository dialogue. For the most part, it's well-written, with a few errors here and there and a sometimes gross overuse of the comma. The titular 'gauntlet' scene was a bit underwhelming in book form but no matter, this is one of the finer novelizations I've read, and it was engaging enough to keep me hooked, providing neither too much detail nor a stunning lack of it.
Recommended for anyone who enjoyed the movie, or just likes reading chase novels in general. Fans of David Morrell might get a kick out of this, too.
June 28, 2022
All the action of the movie with deeper nuanced psychology for both leads. The ending works slightly less well than the movie because the allegory works better when it's got the big spectacle.
June 18, 2024
This novel builds on the strictly-action movie and gives a lot of background, including a few scenes that didn't make it into the movie. It also details the changes that Shockley and Mally go through as they move from adversaries to comrades-in-arms to...
An excellent read if you can find it.
An excellent read if you can find it.
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