Just the two so far. It was a Remington , barrel cut down to the length of the magazine, fifteen inches maybe. Driver paid attention. That woman weeping still in the next room. Then something else as well. Something scratching, scrabbling…. Some time passed before he realized it was his own arm jumping involuntarily, knuckles rapping on the floor, fingers scratching and thumping as the hand contracted.
Then the sounds stopped. No feeling at all left in the arm, no movement. It hung there, apart from him, unconnected, like an abandoned shoe. Driver willed it to move. Nothing happened. He looked back at the open door. Maybe, for now, three bodies are enough. This was one of those Irish novels where people have horrible knockdowndragouts with their fathers, ride around on bicycles a lot, and occasionally blow something up. Its author peered out squinting from the photograph on the inside back cover like some life form newly dredged into sunlight.
Or maybe it was the old lady herself. Old people had that smell about them sometimes. In the book, Sean came to Boston. The movie people changed it to L. What the hell. Better streets. Sipping at his carryout horchata, Driver glanced up at the TV, where fast-talking Jim Rockford did his usual verbal prance-and-dance.
He looked back down, read a few more lines till he fetched up on the word desuetude. What the hell kind of word was that?
He closed the book and put it on the nightstand. There it joined others by Richard Stark, George Pelecanos, John Shannon, Gary Phillips, all of them from that same store on Pico where hour after hour ladies of every age arrived with armloads of romance and mystery novels they swapped two for one. He and Manny had met on the set of a science fiction movie in which, in one of many post-apocalypse Americas, Driver had command of an El Dorado outfitted to look like a tank.
They handled about the same. Manny was one of the hottest writers in Hollywood. People said he had millions tucked away. Maybe he did, who knew? And he was from the streets.
No background to amount to anything, no degree. Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases, she says. What I always say. Treatment, redo, or a shooting script? When do you need it? Hold on a minute? Door-to-door natural-foods salesmen. Like when they used to knock on your door with half a cow butchered and frozen, give you a great deal.
So many steaks, so many ribs, so much ground. Had a woman show up here last week pitching tapes of whale songs.
Jeans with the waistband cut off, faded blue workshirt. It was like seven in the morning. Make a good story—if I wrote stories anymore.
Could be dangerous…. It means to become unaccustomed to. We have more than 50, free ebooks waiting to be discovered. Get free and discounted bestsellers straight to your inbox with the ManyBooks eBook deals newsletter. Signup now. Not sure what to read next? Drive is a novel by James Sallis.
It was first published by Poisoned Pen Press on September 1, A sequel, titled Driven was published in The novel was adapted as a film of the same name , starring Ryan Gosling. Set mostly in Arizona and Los Angeles, Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night.
Drive is an expansion of a story of the same name that Sallis originally wrote for the noir anthology Measures of Poison , published by Dennis McMillan Publications. Publishers Weekly called it Sallis' "most tightly written mystery to date, worthy of comparison to the compact, exciting oeuvre of French noir giant Jean-Patrick Manchette. OverDrive uses cookies and similar technologies to improve your experience, monitor our performance, and understand overall usage trends for OverDrive services including OverDrive websites and apps.
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