“In over 50 years of publishing, Lawrence Block has written more great words than almost any writer you can think of. Terms like “master” and “legend” get thrown around to often — but if you wanted to throw a couple of them Block’s way, I wouldn’t argue with you. Yes, he really is that good…
“Getting Off is a shocking book, for those of us who still have that capacity. (I’m not too sure about myself.) It is certainly not for every taste, but it is brilliantly written. It’s a sexy, violent (there goes that subtitle again), disturbing, darkly humorous, and immensely entertaining novel that prompts some interesting questions about the dichotomy between love (lust?) and hate, fidelity, and how one’s personality (and pathology) are shaped by the things that happen to us.”
Read the full review at Crime Fiction Dossier
