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Fuckin' Lie Down Already

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Tom Piccirilli kicks you in the gut with this dark tale of noir and doesn't stop until someone's dead. The action starts immediately, and the pain that is felt by Guy as he travels the roads with his car full of dead and dying people is understated, and intense all at the same time. Buy this book. Read this book, let it seep in, you won't be disappointed.

This is one of the most powerful stories I have read in a while. Pick this one up and give it a read!

One of my favorite Piccirilli "noirellas" (which also include Every Shallow Cut, The Nobody, The Last Deep Breath, and Frayed) FLDA is brutal tale told with a beautiful and evocative style. When honest cop Clay is marked for death by the mob, the hitman kills his entire family instead and leaves Clay gut-shot and dying. But Clay won't allow himself to quit until he gets payback. In a poignant but awful scene, Clay packs his dead family into car and rides around New York hunting for the man who gave the order.

Only Piccirilli could write such a disturbing set-up and still make it play out with a realistic edge. The dying Clay is a pitiless creature and the action ramps up as he kills his way up the syndicate chain to the big man at the top.

Vicious, haunting, darkly (very very darkly) humorous, and compelling, FLDA is the kind of story you'll never forget once you finish it.