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No Beast So Fierce

By: Bunker Edward
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: NO EXIT PRESS
ISBN: 1842432664
ISBN-13: 9781842432662
Released: 02 May 2008
RRP: £7.99
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The Criminal Mind - By: , 09 Jul 2002
This book is an excellent read & worthy of the praise heaped on it. Bunker's inside knowledge is superb & he captures the relationship between the criminal world & the outside world superbly. His heavy cynicism is refreshing though the ending is a bit contradictory.
Guy Ritchie - you've been rumbled! - By: , 09 Feb 2001
Someone once told Guy Ritchie that to be regarded as a genuine artist he should stop making gangster films & move into something a bit more original. Not so, Edward Bunker, who seems to gain credibility & ooze originality with every novel he publishes.

No Beast so Fierce is at first exactly what you would expect from an ex-con who has considered his past present & future from behind a couple of inches of iron. But where Mr Madonna fails with his pseudo-don't f*ck with me persona, Bunker is right on point & there's no mistaking the fact that his fiction is more from the back of the cell than of the mind.

In Max Dembo, Bunker creates a con who you know is a good guy reallly, but just a good guy who'll blow your head off if you get in his way or he feels like it. He trips from one sniff of criminality to another, picking up a woman & and picking off a cop, before finallly returning to the position he is in when the book begins.

Bunker's novel is then a realistic, if depressing exploration of how we condition those we imprison, & how they, in turn, struggle to meet with the separate set of rules we impose when they are returned to 'normal' society.

A fantastic read - By: , 22 Dec 2000
This book is excellent. You reallly get to know the main character & understand the reasons for the choices he makes. I just had to keep reading on & loved every part of it & has one of the best wind ups that I have read.
A good crime story and criminal biography rolled into one. - By: , 07 Dec 2000
This gripping insight into the American criminal life is so convincing that it the reader has to be reminded that it is a novel. Written as Bunker was being sentenced to his third term in prison, it clearly demonstrates the difficulties facing ex prisoners on release, who lacking any other opportunities are almost inevitably drawn back into crime. In so doing, it explores the both the American attitude to ex cons in maintaining this position but also refreshingly admits the role of the criminal psyche in the constant need for one more big hit.

Bunker's intelligent writing style, juxtaposed against his almost indifferent attitude to violent crime, provides a stark contrast & the book highlights the fragility of the inter relationships within the criminal communities where trust is an occupational hazard.

That Bunker finallly broke free from a life of crime through this book reinforces its quality- definitely worth a read.