Pick up any of Lang's crime novels and you will find a bevy of lowlife
characters, each of them dumber than the next. In this novel, you
have a group of characters including particularly Cyril the college-boy
turned drug courier who doesn't carry a piece and falls for any damsel
that he meets in a bar, his brother, a drug enforcer, Willow, a curvy
lady who carries a gun, Danny, a sex offender who makes best friends
with the football-player guy who lives upstairs, Marcus, and together
they make the most unlikely pair of fortune hunters. There are others
in the book, but they are all in some sense losers with limited closed-in
worlds who can't seem to escape from their petty little lives.
There is a bit of humor in this novel as each of the characters seems to
be more bumbling than suave, particularly the lead character Cyril,
and the story starts a little slow, but once it gets going, it is just an
excellent tale that is hard to put down. Really enjoy Lang's writing
style which is matter-of-fact storytelling and just easy to read.
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