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Do you know some good books like the story of Max Payne? I read only the Raymond Chandler's books, but I need something a bit "heavy".
I enjoyed a lot wit Simon Kernick's The Business of Dying. Seriously, this is a good book.
James Ellroy's early stuff, up to about LA Confidential.
I think around White Jazz he got it into his head that sentence fragments was a style.
Alex Casey is pretty good. He's literally Max Payne in a different name and medium.
>>7671946
Not sure if youd call it noir as such but Norman Mailer's American Dream includes society's seedy underbelly, murder and fascination with a moll / dame type character.
I enjoyed it.
>>7671946
An anon recommended me James Crumley a while ago, namely The Last Good Kiss. I enjoyed it a lot, it's said to be a mix of Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson if you can imagine that. The protagonist is just as witty as Marlowe, but a lot more violent and merciless, also drunk mostly througout the novel.
>>7671946
"Cocaine Nights" by Ballard.
>>7672100
I wouldnt say its noir but its a rad book nonetheless. I kinda felt Fight Club robbed it of its anarchic praise.
dashiell hammett - red harvest is the best hard boiled i've read imo
>>7673391
You know a crime novel's going well when it has a chapter called "The Seventeenth Murder".
Andrew Vachss does it well.
Bump
>>7671946
Drive by James Sallis. The book the movie was based on.
Quick read, but very well written.
