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    Driven
    Driven
    Driven
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    Driven

    By James Sallis

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    "The perfect piece of noir fiction." —New York Times Book Review

    "Terse, brutal, poetic, perfectly wrought." —Publishers Weekly STARRED review

    At the end of Drive, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, "the only one he ever mourned," ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that young man, done with killing, becomes the one who goes down "at 3 a.m. on a clear, cool morning in a Tijuana bar."

    Seven years have passed. Driver has left the old life, become Paul West, and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. Walking down the street one day, he and his fiancée are attacked by two men and, while Driver dispatches both, his fiancée is killed.

    Sinking back into anonymity, aided by his friend Felix, an ex-gangbanger and Desert Storm vet, Driver retreats but finds that his past stalks him and will not stop. He has to turn and face it. Because he drives. That's what he does.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateSep 30, 2012
    ISBN9781615954018
    Driven
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    James Sallis

    James Sallis has published fourteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, poems and essays, the definitive biography of Chester Himes, three books of musicology, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. The film of Drive won Best Director award at Cannes; the six Lew Griffin books are in development. Jim plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and Dobro both solo and with the band Three-Legged Dog.

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      This is a sequel to James Sallis's "Drive" which was also made into the 2011 film by director Nicolas Winding Refn.The plot of "Driven" finds the Driver character in Phoenix, Arizona, seven years after the events of "Drive", where he has tried to start a new life away from movie stunt and getaway car driving. Hoodlums start to follow him around and seem intent on killing him and his loved ones for unknown reasons. Driver enlists the help of a shady character named Felix to help him hide out and to also dig for information through his underworld and mercenary connections. Although this is well written in the noir style by Sallis, the final payoff was a letdown and Driver himself wasn't really directly involved in putting together the pieces of the mystery which was mostly happening off-the-page in New Orleans or Brooklyn. Driver's actions are mostly involved in fighting off his assailants and hiding out. In the end this wasn't quite as satisfying as the original "Drive" for those various reasons. You have to have read the original book in order to understand who the characters Bernie Rose, Nino and Blanche are in order to follow this book as well.

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