Two hours of savagery, of silk and leaden lust, of sheer terror await you in the nightmare spell of these pages, this death-song. The hardest, roughest novel of them all Fast One. Here is the novel that goes even farther than Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in bringing to life the savage side of America beyond the law. It is set amidst the dehumanizing desperation of the Great Depression....