Fast One - Softcover

Cain, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0948353554 ISBN 13: 9780948353550

Publisher: No Exit Press, 1993

Synopsis

Fast One is possibly the toughest tough-guy and most brutal gangster story ever written. Set in Depression Los Angeles it has a surreal quality that is positively hypnotic. It is the saga of gunman-gambler Gerry Kells and his dipso lover S. Granquist (she has no first name), who rearrange the LA underworld and "disappear" in an explosive climax that matches their first appearance. The pace is incredible and relentless and the complex plot with its twists and turns defies summary. One Los Angeles reviewer called the book 'a ceaseless welter of bloodshed'; while the Saturday Review of Literature thought it 'the hardest-boiled yarn of a decade.'

Fast One was originally a collection of stories featuring the gambler/gunman Kells. The tales ran in Black Mask magazine from 1931-1932

About this title

About the Author

Irvin Faust is a writer and teacher whose novels include Roar Lion Roar (1965) and Willy Remembers (1971). He lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Exit Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0948353554
• ISBN 13: 9780948353550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160