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Savage Night (2008)

by Allan Guthrie(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1846970199 (ISBN13: 9781846970191)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Polygon

review 1: Allan Guthrie does this. He takes what could be the most straightforward crime scenario, bare non the most straightforward story and turns them into surreal, balletic, over-the-top, cacophonous celebration of gory violence and spiteful feeling, like a demented Italian chef making long, thick spaghettis of death by stetching and deforming dough. There is nobody that writes like him. Nobody. I used to think Guy Ritchie's movies were cool, but they're not. They're vanilla compared to this. SAVAGE NIGHT would make Guy Ritchie cry for his mother. In fact, the debate I had with myself before reading it was to know whether it would live up to its title, which is legendary is noir. Not only it does, but it should have been called something like that. SAVAGE NIGHT 2: SAVAGER. Great... more book.
review 2: Savage Night. Violent, funny, demented, twisted... but it's Guthrie, so that's a given, right?Savage Night is the story of two families at murderous odds with one another: the Parks, led by ex-con Andy Park who (despite his pathological aversion to nnggghh blood) wants revenge for a (real or imagined) slight perpetrated by the Savages. He concocts a blackmail scheme that goes horribly wrong when the Savages decide to take action themselves. The violence escalates and finally comes to a head in one long, bloody night of mayhem.In Slammer, Guthrie stuck with a single POV, but in Savage Night he uses multiple POV to great effect . There are times, especially about mid-way through, where things get a little confusing and you'd better be paying very close attention if you don't want to get lost. Fortunately, Guthrie makes NOT paying attention impossible. less

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