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Title: Rilke on Black
Author: Ken Bruen
Rating: 3 stars out of 5
Publisher: Five Star
Copyright: 1996
ISBN: 1852427817
Pages: 160
Keywords: crime, fiction
Reading period: 26-28 December, 2006

Three very screwed-up Londoners kidnap a Rilke-spouting businessman and hold him for hostage. There's a horrified fascination as it inevitably goes pear shaped. Written in a spare, first-person style, it's short, but certainly not sweet.

posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 3:56:44 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00) 
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