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Mixing equal parts Mickey Spillane and Quentin Tarantino, A Long Slow Screw, set during a week in the late 1970's New York City is a mean streets meander through a jewel heist gone from bad to worse, as sometimes crook Jake Paternostra tries to make a buck the hard way: one bullet at a time.

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October 8, 2009
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ BookSurge Publishing; First Paperback Edition (October 8, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1439244243
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1439244241
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.66 x 7.75 inches

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Eugene S. Robinson has written for GQ, Revolver, Real Fighter, Gladiator, Hustler's Busty Beauties, Harp, The Wire, Mac|Life, SF Weekly, Grappling Magazine, LA Weekly, Vice, Corporate Computing, Hustler, PC Gamer, and Decibel, among many others. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of Code and EQ magazines.

He grew up in New York City, where he first understood the surreal joy of a bloody nose gotten or given through fighting before coming west to Stanford and studying journalism, and extracurricular boxing, Kenpo karate, Muay Thai, wrestling, and Brazilian jiu jitsu. The 6'1", 210-pound Robinson, in addition to his work in magazine publishing, has also appeared in film, and on television [as well as being the vocalist and front man for the art brut quartet Oxbow] and was featured in "the worst movie of 1987" Bill Cosby's execrable Leonard Part 6, in Gus Van Sant-directed beer commercials and in a number of indie features playing everything from Preachers to intergalactic male prostitutes. His book FIGHT: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About A** Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your A** Kicked for Asking [Harper Collins] was quickly followed by his novel A LONG SLOW SCREW [Robotic Boot/Hydrahead] last November.

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Mej

Solid crime fiction

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 3, 2010

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Robinson's first novel is a good read. It's not great, but it's good. Crime fiction tends to read like police procedurals or pulp fiction. Robinson pleasantly avoids the pitfalls of both genres.

A Long Slow Screw tends to lean toward the pulp end of things but it doesn't suffer from the standard cliches. There are 4 characters the drive the overall narrative: Jake, Joe, Blue and Easy. Admittedly, Jake is the most likable of the bunch but I found Joe and Blue to be a bit more complicated. Their characters developed with a bit more subtlety. The narrative turns toward Jake's upbringing and childhood seemed abrupt and rattled the story. I found myself re-reading the sections where these historical tidbits were placed.

Overall, I liked the book. I'm a fan of Eugene's music and he's a cool guy too. It was nice to read his book out of want rather than feeling like the obligatory fan. If you're looking for Oxbow on paper though, you're looking in the wrong place. Eugene is more than a front man and a fighter...and he exemplifies this rather well in his first novel.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2010

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Readers of crime stories taking place in picturesque New York City can wait no longer. A voice has emerged telling the story like it is. Or at least, as it likely was for the unfortunate in the underbelly.
Robinson paints characters as brash as they are likeable. The weavings of the plot will make you think and force you to take notes.
The thinking man has written a novel for the thinking classes.
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Jt Parker

Evocative, elegant and brutal

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2010

Robinson, rock terrorizer by night, seems to have turned his hand brilliantly by day to crime fiction with this one. I am not an afficionado of the form, so I may have missed any echoes of Spillane etc. However what I did get was a thrilling ride through some terrifying scenarios, populated by unnervingly warm, well-drawn characters. The writing is spare and yet occasionally very beautiful, particularly when conjuring up the bestial, unforgiving yet enlivening city. The problem with this book, if there is any, is its lack of a moral compass. There doesn't seem to be any guiding light of narrative voice, purely a sensitive and sensual narrator. This is actually probably a good thing if you ask me.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 26, 2010

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This book reads like a more violent, crime thriller version of a Hubert Selby Jr. novel.

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Kiwiwriter

A good crime story with a lot of 1970s New York color.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 24, 2015

I think the thing I enjoyed most about this was the 1970s New York color...that's the New York Eugene Robinson and I grew up in, and it's beginning to go from "the world we live in" to "the world of the past."

Back then video games were "Asteroids" and if you had a lot of money, you could watch a movie on a Betamax disk, everybody wore polyester suits and big hair, a $2.5 million contract for Catfish Hunter was a lot of money, the subways were filthy and crumbling, and anyone over the age of 50 complained about that godawful music we were playing, such classic songs as "Disco Lady," "Disco Inferno," and the unforgettable "Disco Duck." Because of that, I don't whinge to my daughter about Lady Gaga et al.

Crime stories, especially those told from the point of view of the criminal, often fall apart in execution and results, which is the nature of both fiction and reality. Criminals are not often a very bright lot -- if they knew how to succeed in life, they would, and not resort to crime.

I had a good time with this book, and a reader looking for a good story and some 1970s New York nostalgia will, too.

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I frothed awaiting the arrival of this book out of the miasma and into my life and I was rewarded! Eugene does in print well what he does exceptionally as a vocalist, he presents the side of things on the downside of the hill, descent in progress yet gathering no haste. The characters and the daily lives in A Long Slow Screw exemplify getting by, keeping their eyes open for the big payout and any opportunity to have better, at anyone else's expense be damned. Check out his music, his podcast, his online articles, Eugene S Robinson is a renaissance man for the modern scoundrel that smiles in your face.

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Great story, great pace

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 6, 2010

I really enjoyed reading this book. I couldn't put it down as it was fast paced, gritty and fun to read. The main character, Jake, solicits equal doses of contempt and empathy as he races through 1970s New York on a quest for a better life. I think Mr. Robinson should continue writing this kind of story. Well done sir.

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