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Metro
The acclaimed author of Resurrection Express breaks all the rules in this non-stop suspense thriller packed with killers, comic books, drug lords, and film nerds.For the last five years, Jollie, Andy, and Mark have lived together in a crazy bohemian crash pad in Austin, Texas, immersed in an endless summer of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. But one of them is not what they seem to be. And when that person finally blows a decades-long cover during a violent attack on a powerful Austin dope dealer, all hell breaks loose in the bloody, bullet-riddled aftermath. As the façade of the normal world sizzles away, revealing an ominous shadow league of endemic spies and assassins known only as METRO, Jollie, Andy, and Mark must run like hell into a very dark night, where love and friendship will bind them, a terrifying hatchet man will close in to kill them, and the pitch black truth about everything will be revealed, again and again...
325 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 14, 2015
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January 7, 2016
Definitely one of my favorite books I've read in along time. The action was non stop and I loved the story. I will be reading RESURRECT EXPRESS in the very near future.
October 5, 2015
This is pretty much what I posted on Amazon, but wanted to recommend this title to my GoodReads people!
This is what a thriller is supposed to be, man. Surprising and fast paced (those action sequences though, seriously!), with a mystery you can't quite call the shots on. The story is good, but what really makes this novel is the style. The moments of internal clarity that each of the characters experience during all the chaotic violence (and there is a lot of violence, but it's not gratuitous, it's all going somewhere, I promise), they reach out and grab you, thrust you into the minds of these people, and chew you up like a blender set to puree. And when you come out the other side, man, you really effing get what this person is about.
I'd also like to add that there is a character in this book that obtains a level of psychotic that is hard to write. It's a delicate matter to write a psycho that doesn't feel like recycled material. Many have tried. Romano succeeded. But really all of these characters are interesting. They're dark and nasty and damaged, to be sure, but they are more than that too. They see the world in a certain way, as harsh and deliberate and heartbreaking, and they carve out their niche in it (like so many of us do), and then everything gets blown to smithereens. And not everyone makes it that you want to make it. But who wants a story that gets wrapped up in a pretty little feel good bow at the end? I mean, sometimes I do, but not this time.
I highly recommend this book (and his previous one too, Resurrection Express... it's super fun and has a similar break-neck style to the writing), if you have ever liked things like Fight Club, Die Hard, True Romance, 12 Monkeys, or other cinematic experiences like these (so I guess, David Fincher, Tony Scott and Quentin Tarentino fans). In fact that's a pretty good word for the experience of reading this book... cinematic - like it says on the cover.
At the end I was just like, wtf just happened? Because right at the end, things go in a direction I did not see coming and it all happened so fast (like what I said about the writing of the action sequences... just spot on - it really just put me right in the middle of it all and didn't let up - I don't think there was a moment in this novel that I felt like the storytelling was bogged down in anyway - it's a lean mean thriller machine).
This is what a thriller is supposed to be, man. Surprising and fast paced (those action sequences though, seriously!), with a mystery you can't quite call the shots on. The story is good, but what really makes this novel is the style. The moments of internal clarity that each of the characters experience during all the chaotic violence (and there is a lot of violence, but it's not gratuitous, it's all going somewhere, I promise), they reach out and grab you, thrust you into the minds of these people, and chew you up like a blender set to puree. And when you come out the other side, man, you really effing get what this person is about.
I'd also like to add that there is a character in this book that obtains a level of psychotic that is hard to write. It's a delicate matter to write a psycho that doesn't feel like recycled material. Many have tried. Romano succeeded. But really all of these characters are interesting. They're dark and nasty and damaged, to be sure, but they are more than that too. They see the world in a certain way, as harsh and deliberate and heartbreaking, and they carve out their niche in it (like so many of us do), and then everything gets blown to smithereens. And not everyone makes it that you want to make it. But who wants a story that gets wrapped up in a pretty little feel good bow at the end? I mean, sometimes I do, but not this time.
I highly recommend this book (and his previous one too, Resurrection Express... it's super fun and has a similar break-neck style to the writing), if you have ever liked things like Fight Club, Die Hard, True Romance, 12 Monkeys, or other cinematic experiences like these (so I guess, David Fincher, Tony Scott and Quentin Tarentino fans). In fact that's a pretty good word for the experience of reading this book... cinematic - like it says on the cover.
At the end I was just like, wtf just happened? Because right at the end, things go in a direction I did not see coming and it all happened so fast (like what I said about the writing of the action sequences... just spot on - it really just put me right in the middle of it all and didn't let up - I don't think there was a moment in this novel that I felt like the storytelling was bogged down in anyway - it's a lean mean thriller machine).
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