Review: Raises the bar
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2011
I became a big fan of Roger's after reading Mixed Blood. The writing in his first book had such a great compulsory vibe to it-kind of like the best of what you'd expect from Richard Stark and Elmore Leonard.  And I also loved that the violence was given straight up, and not played for laughs like so many hardboiled crime novels today. As much as I liked Mixed Blood, Roger's second novel, Wake Up Dead, was huge leap forward for him and was one of my favorite reads of 2010.And now there's Dust Devils. Mixed Blood and Wake Up Dead hadn't quite prepared me for this book, which is maybe the best modern crime thriller I've read. Brilliantly written, unflinching, completely uncompromising, violent and bloody as hell but in the most honest sense, the book also mixes in with it's page-turning seat-of-the-pants thriller a poignant and sad political history of South Africa. This is a book that deserves to be huge, and at $3.99 is the biggest bargain in the Kindle Store.  IF you have the slightest interest in great crime thrillers, you need to read this book!