A Swollen Red Sun
by Matthew McBride 243 p.
Author Chuck Wendig calls McBride’s particular brand of
fiction Chainsaw Noir. While that’s a beautiful term, I will stick with
“Missouri noir”, putting it firmly into Daniel Woodrell territory while taking
nothing from this unique piece. Gasconade County is a contender for Missouri
meth capital, and not so very far from here. Deputy Sheriff Dale Banks keeps
the $52,000 he finds, knowing it’s drug money, knowing it’s wrong, but Dale is
not a bad guy. Unfortunately, our actions do come back to haunt us, sometimes
with a vengeance. McBride starts out with a number of disparate story lines, gradually
weaving them together with brutal black humor, so that the finale is as inevitable as it is surprising.
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