Von Doviak’s Southern-fried yarn is indeed terrifically cinematic ... Part breezy road-trip hangout and part exciting mad, mad, mad, mad chase ... The book is wonderfully lived-in and evocative ... An assured read.
Von Doviak keeps things equally shaggy and pulpy by constantly bringing Chuck and Dean up against new waves of largely unconnected miscreants determined to force them into further criminal enterprises, fleece them, kill them, or sometimes all three.
Though the story occasionally gets sidelined in favor of ever-escalating grindhouse madness, Von Doviak never drops the ball. Razor-sharp dialogue and high-octane action keep this entertaining pulp novel afloat.
