The Getaway Man by Andrew Vachss
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In The Getaway Man Vachss tries his hand at the classic pulp style crime novel. The unnamed narrator is a young guy, a little simple, but loyal to a fault, and a hell of a driver. Driving is in his blood. He doesn't care about money, and he's only interested in cars in so much as he can drive them. It's not the car that he loves, it's the act of driving.
There's nothing ground breaking here; this is a very readable, fairly predictable, fast paced book. The genre staples are all here. There are crooks, sleazy women, double crosses, and scams a-plenty. Many of the characters read a little on the flat side, especially the crew working at the end of the novel, but part of that is pretty deliberate, given the narrator' slack of interest in other people.
A fast, readable book that doesn't disappoint but doesn't really do anything to stand out from the pack, either.
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