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Title: Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 0-440-22179-X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: December, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (53 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Raw and absorbing
Comment: From the first line of Dirty White Boys, it's obvious this book is not for everyone. It is full of incredible violence, bloodshed, and profanity. It also has a peculiar raw power. Ruthless Lamar Pye, his mentally handicapped cousin Odell, and a spineless intellect named Richard Peed have broken out of prison, murdering three people on their way. Bud Pewtie, an Oklahoma State Trooper, is already deep in a relationship with his partner, Ted's, wife when he and Ted are called to help search for the convicts. Inevitably, the two groups meet. Ted and Bud encounter far more than they're ready for, but so does Lamar, and the result is ... Dirty White Boys.
Stephen Hunter did a remarkable job with this book. It is very well written, fast-paced, and absorbing. It is not without flaws -- I found the brief paragraphs from Odell's perspective hard to believe at best, and from my experience working with mentally handicapped people, I know they can often tell right from wrong as well as the rest of us, even if they go about it a bit differently -- still, the characters in Dirty White Boys are not stereotyped. The bad guys are not all bad, the good guys not all good, and the results are woven seemlessly together.
An excellent read.
Rating: 5
Summary: These Boys Rock!
Comment: This is one of the most intense thrillers I've ever read, a perfect blend of dark humor, wild action and edge-of-your-seat suspense. Hunter creates three dimensional characters - his good guys have flaws and his bad guys have virtues - and this seems to have disturbed some other reviewers on this page. I wouldn't have it any other way. The world is not black and white. Why should our crime fiction be? I have known people just like many of the characters in this book. As extreme as the action gets, the personalities involved remain completely credible. Hunter is a master of mayhem and a canny observer of human nature. His books are always complex and loaded with fascinating detail. DIRTY WHITE BOYS is one of his best.
Rating: 5
Summary: Down and dirty...
Comment: This is the first of Stephen Hunter's books that I've read and it remains a vivid experience years later. Hunter brings all his characters to life, especially the monstrous Lamar Pye, a conscienceless killer who, along with his mentally slow, but physically imposing cousin Odell, form a two-man wrecking crew.
Lamar and Odell break out of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary with a third inmate, a weak-kneed felon with an artistic talent that impresses Lamar, who seeks protection from Lamar. The three escaped cons cut a wide, violent swath across the southwest, dogged by Oklahoma State Trooper Bud Pewtie who'd almost been killed by Lamar Pye earlier and is determined to bring both Lamar and Odell to justice.
Where Hunter's story differs from the normal 'cops and robbers' fare is that he doesn't caricature Lamar and Odell. Lamar is portrayed with pathos as a loser who never stood a chance, clinging to an idealized view of what a family is and what right and wrong are, completely unaware of how twisted his vision is. Hunter delivers an unflinching view of a socio-path's mind and the strange bond of violence that tie both Lamar and Odell to Bud Pewtie in a death dance of retribution.
Not only is this a terrific story it's an unforgettable one as well.
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Title: Black Light by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 044022313X Publisher: Island Books Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter, MacDonald ISBN: 0553563513 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Time to Hunt: A Novel by Stephen Hunter, Maccambridge ISBN: 0440226457 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 13 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 0671035452 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 22 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Master Sniper by Stephen Hunter ISBN: 0440221870 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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