Driven by James Sallis

Clocking in at an amazingly short 147 pages, Driven is a breath of fresh air when compared to the books I have been reading lately.  The writing is clean and simple.  The sentences short and to the point.  The vocabulary purely functional.    I liked it. Driven finds our mysterious hero Driver alive and well and living in Phoenix.  In the opening scene two men try to kill him. He kills them, but not before they kill his girlfriend.  This leads to the Jeremiah Johnson plotline where random men crawl out of the woodwork and do mortal combat with Driver. Cars…

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