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Blood-Stained Kings

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This is a Tarantino-esqe thrill ride full off awesome, well developed, characters, cool weapons, attack dogs, the mob, revenge, redemption, lost loot, love, sex, violence, crooked lawyers, hitmen, etc. etc.

From Louisiana to the deep south Georgia river country this story NEVER gets boring and NEVER runs out of steam. I totally disagree with the other reviewer who stated that all the characters were devoid of any redeeming qualities. Hell, Jefferson himself is worthy of at least two.

This is the type of book that I would LOVE to see in movie form. Not that it would take the place of the fiction/literature that Willocks has given us but it would just be such a good movie!!
This book makes something like "The Da Vinci Code" look like a 1st graders scribble.

Willocks is an EXCELLENT writer and his creativity and originality are OFF THE CHART.

I think it is even better than Willock's "Green River Rising", and that's saying plenty. There is no better prison story than "Green River Rising". It blows stories like "The Green Mile" and "Shawshank Redemption" out of the water.

Willocks has taken a hiatus, of sorts, from his fiction writing and we are all suffering as a consequence. I speak for all fans of good writing and unending action, when I say "TIM, GIVE US ANOTHER NOVEL ALREADY".

In keeping with his first outing in Bad City Blues, in which he was forced to go head to head with the juggernaut that was infamous law enforcement officer, Captain Clarence Jefferson, sometime psychiatrist Eugene `Cicero' Grimes is reluctantly compelled to step into the breach once more as he finds himself enmeshed within the web spun by the machiavellian machinations of the giant fat man.

The story is, as might be expected from anyone familiar with Willocks' work, gut wrenching, visceral stuff characterized by the odd philosophical rumination between lulls in the carnage. Perhaps, it's this seemingly odd juxtaposition of musings on the mysteries of existence and the meaning of life and the frenetic action the major players are forced to engage in by the dark, primal forces that drive them that explains the book's attraction. It's brilliantly written, compellingly page-turning stuff!

He nailed the New Orleans scene with a lot of very graphically violent action. Don't these characters even take time out to rest?

this novel was pretty good. I read green River Rising and really enjoyed it and managed to find this one. I was a little dismayed to find that this novel is a kind of follow up to Bad City Blues but it still works on its own.
Basically the story was really good and I like novels that give some pretty gritty narrative and tough characters. However, this novel is not short and after a while I began to find the fact that every single character is completely devoid of redeeming qualities a bit tedious. Willocks creates a difficult blend of sympathy for his protagonist and cynical disgust at the darker side of him. Willocks is certainly a fantastic writer and Clarence Jefferson is one of the finest villians since Frank Booth.

I also thought that Willocks kind of fizzled out at the end and after a very promising build up, things just kind of stopped. That said, there is some great description in here and if you like your characters truly vile and your plot riddled with ... and double crossings, take a look.

Not a bad book. Good plot. Holds your attention. Easy reading. However, the book reflects the writter's background a little too much. All the characters are prone to self reflection and psychobabble. And for some reason, all the characters like to quote from ancient philosophers. The schools in LA must be better than I thought. That being said, I did enjoy the book and would recommend it others.