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Sat 12 Dec 2008Getting their just deserts
CRIME:KEN BRUEN HAS a hit on his hands with American Skin(Brandon, €22.99). The narrative fairly vibrates off the page and the pace is rocket fast. And his villains are in the James Lee Burke parthenon of bad guys, writes Vincent Banville
Stephen Blake is on the run after a bank heist in Southern Ireland, heading for the desert near Tucson. He has the money and his girlfriend has the means of laundering it.
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