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No Beast So Fierce

By: Edward Bunker
Narrated by: Ray Chase
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After eight years spent locked up, Max has gotten very good at being a prisoner. He knows the guards, the inmates, and how to survive. But the parole board has decided that he has sufficiently reformed, and it's time for him to say good-bye. When Max reaches the outside world, he finds that freedom doesn't make anything easier.

Based on his own experiences in prison, Edward Bunker first drafted No Beast So Fierce in the 1950s, while incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison. He spent the next two decades in and out of jail, writing essays for various magazines and working on the novel, which was finally published in 1973. Eighteen months later, the book was used as evidence that he was fit to leave jail. He received parole, and spent the rest of his life a free man.

©1975 Edward Bunker (P)2012 HighBridge Company Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Modern Detectives Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Urban Crime

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Critic reviews

"Integrity, craftsmanship, and moral passion...an artist with a unique and compelling voice." (William Styron)
"The best first-person crime novel I have ever read." (Quentin Tarantino)
"Quite simply, one of the great crime novels of the past 30 years." (James Ellroy)
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listened over a few commutes, really captivating, highly recommended I hope there's going to be some more Edward Bunker books uploaded soon 👍

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Not my favourite of Bunker's books, but that doesn't mean this isn't still a fantastic piece of crime writing. Excellent story and well narrated.

More Bunker is needed. He was one of the best crime writers out there and nearly as well known as he deserves to be.

Excellent! But we need more Bunker.

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If you like LA Movies. If you don't know what Neo Noir is, get this book. Read about these characters so you don't become one of them. Entertaining and well performed. It's magnificently written.

A Perfect Neo Noir-Brilliantly written.

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