Strongly resembling a straight suspense thriller, Recoil may fit more closely into the detective/crime genre made popular by Hammett and other of Thompson's contemporaries than any of his other novels. While several of its characters might be termed stereotypical, Thompson departs from crime novel tradition.....
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