Comments on: Boston Noir http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/crime/boston-noir/ reading material to get excited about Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick Mahon http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/crime/boston-noir/comment-page-1/#comment-91454 Patrick Mahon Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:15:41 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=11864#comment-91454 If you want some real Boston noir, try this new guy, James Vance Elliott. His Boston crime novel <i>Combat Boy</i> is set in two time periods, ranging from the free-wheeling, chaotic 1970's to the 1990's with its McMansions and high-tech easy money. It is a tale of fathers and sons, the conflict between Boston Irish hoods and their aspiring middle-class cousins, the ambivalence of men towards their own violence - and much else. http://ganglandscribe2.blogspot.com/2011/08/combat-boy-by-james-vance-elliott.html If you want some real Boston noir, try this new guy, James Vance Elliott. His Boston crime novel Combat Boy is set in two time periods, ranging from the free-wheeling, chaotic 1970′s to the 1990′s with its McMansions and high-tech easy money. It is a tale of fathers and sons, the conflict between Boston Irish hoods and their aspiring middle-class cousins, the ambivalence of men towards their own violence – and much else.

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