Review: The hopeless world of Keith Rawson
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2012
If you like crime fiction better when it's done differently, Keith Rawson's stories THE CHAOS WE KNOW might just be what you're looking for. Rawson revisits many tropes of traditional noir, but twists and turns them to make something new. You know those spectacular statues made out of recycled material? This is it.By that, I don't mean THE CHAOS WE KNOW lacks originality. Au contraire! It's as much fiction as it's a commentary on it should be done. The world of Rawson is full of self-destructive, nihilistic jerks who would like nothing better than to steal your money and blow up your house. It's dark, it's raw and it has a strange but enthralling sense of intimity to it. I have never read anything like this before, but I can't wait to read more of him.