Publishers Weekly, April 5th, 1993
SAVE ME, JOE LOUIS
Madison Smartt Bell. Harcourt, $23.95 (384p) ISBN 0-15-179432-4
Like a steel bearing in a pinball machine, the protagonist of Bell's new novel bounces wildly from one crime to another. Only at the end of his run, overcoming his instinct to react to circumstances rather than create them, does he seem willing to choose his own moral path. AWOL from the service and living in a New York City tenement, Macrae teams up with Charlie to rob people by forcing them to withdraw money from bank machines. As the crimes and violence escalate, they are joined by Porter, a black ex-con,...
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