by Stephen Hunter
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They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary--three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them....
Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars--for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose....
Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him....
Richard's survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of a lion and a half-naked woman. For this Lamar has let Richard live...
Armed to the teeth, Lamar and his boys have cut a path of terror across the Southwest, and pushed one good cop into a crisis of honor and conscience. Trooper Bud Pewtie should have died once at Lamar's hands. Now they're about to meet again. And this time, only one of them will walk away....
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 This will not convince you., 2008-07-15
I love to read. But if the book does not grab me from the first couple pages, back it goes.
Simply and ignorantly put, without all the details, I can surely say that this is one of, if not the best books
I have ever read. I know!!!!! Not very helpful. But ya just gotta read it!!!!!!!!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
super novel, 2008-06-04
Inside the mind of a brilliant sociopath....why would any of us want to go there? Perhaps to understand , or try to understand, what normal people cannot even imagine. Nature vs nurture......this is an exciting book but sad and morose as well. Sad that humans who can be so much can also be so little, so terrible. you absolutely MUST read this book prior to reading Black Light!!!!!! No exceptions now y'all hear? Point of Impact would be a good prequel too.....POI, then DWB, than and only then Black Light. Keep em in order and you'll enjoy ( and understand) em all the more.
And, and, and......how can a society not preemptively care for its' "baby Odells". There is sadness in this great novel. You better be prepared to get slapped by some of it if you're an empathic person such as this reviewer.
eek....my liberal side is leaking out again.......
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Don't let the harsh beginning turn you away, 2008-01-28
Listen... I read Time To Hunt and then went back to Point Of Impact. I loved them both. POI was better for me, but both were grand. I bought DWB and started it. I knew the beginning page because of the snapshot Amazon gives you. I knew it would be rough. But the way the first chapter ended I thought I'd have to quit. If you feel the same after Chapter One DON'T DO IT. Keep reading. The book redeems itself beyond the hopeless evil and treachery of the characters. The fact that Hunter is so insightful as to how people just let their lives fall apart. About how they feel destined to do certain things. About how both of these things can happen to intelligent people. [albeit not intuitive, logical and self-correcting people!]
Hunter has the tragic human condition down cold. He unfolds this story with painful ferocity. I haven't even finished it yet, but I know how good it is. It is a nice reminder to me of how utterly hopeless most people are. How lacking people are in self-perception, intuition, realism, and virtue. This may sound depressing, but it is the truth about people. To defend yourself from the mistakes of others you have to have knowledge. Hunter dishes out knowledge, internal and external, by the plateful here!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Life isn't perfect.....Sometimes its Scary., 2007-12-25
I have read the poor reviews on this book and all I can say is I guess nothing really bad happens in the world? This book is very in your face and I couldn't put it down, I read it all in about three days. Lamar is one bad guy (*note: If you enjoy this book and other Hunter books read Black light, you'll learn something interesting about Lamar.) and I wouldn't want to cross his path and Bud has to be one of the toughest cops to deal with this. Anyway I'm not going to give anything in the book away. I do want to say that the characters in the book are very interesting, none of them perfect, but they all have there place in this book. The descriptions Stephen Hunter gives are great, I can always picture it in my head like a movie. Anyway all I really have to say is I think this is one of Mr. Hunters best books and recommend it to anyone who is grown up enough to handle a few bad words.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Very good, but not that good, 2007-11-20
This is a very good book, but it is not a five star classic. But, compared to many of today's best sellers, it is a masterpiece. I have read so much junk lately, that it is refreshing to read something that is this good. It almost makes me want to give it five stars, like others have done.
One of the best things about this book is that you get complex, well developed characters. It is not like the cardboard cutouts you get with books by people like Clancey, Grisham, Brown, or even Leonard. The good guys are not squeaky clean super heroes and the bad guys are not pure evil, with absolutely no redeeming values. I know some people hate to read about complex people (evidenced by some reviews), but I personally find people like Clancey's Jack Ryan just boring and irritating.
This is a very violent story about people escaping from prison and going on a killing spree, while a law officers hunt them down. Along with having well developed characters, it is a good action story. The story is more or less grounded in reality and does not result to the tired cliches of many books.
The book was published in 1995 and it feels like a chronical of what rural America was like at the time. You get the feel that things would be much different if the story happened today. Different cars, the use of cell phones and the internet would have changed the course of events.
But, the book is not perfect and does have some minor downsides. There are some parts where the book is a little slow. And, how many times can the hero cheat death? And, in the end, the people you would expect to die do end up dying.
And there is the cheesy ending, where after the final gunfight, you don't know who died. Then they flash forward with family members at a cemetary visiting a grave, but whose grave is it? Then they reveal who the grave belongs to and who is still alive. It is a cliche ending that has been used in the movies too many times.
Stephen Hunter is a journalist, who writes movie reviews and was a recent guest reviewer on Ebert and Roeper. In 2003, he won a Pulitzer prize for journalism.
Hunter has been writing books about a character named Swagger. In most of his books, Swagger somehow makes a cameo appearance. In this book, Swagger's father is featured in a flashback.
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