It's a style-over-substance type of book - the plot is admittedly sort of thin, yet the pure suspense of the father and his young son on the run throughout the wintry Midwestern U.S. I state that opinion because of its time period setting (the bleak, crime-soaked era where Prohibition overlapped with the Great Depression, circa 1929) AND with the non-stop scenes of brutal violence that would otherwise have many pages dripping in red. 'The Angel of Death,' administering two fatal gunshots to said mookĪlthough likely better remembered these days for the acclaimed 2002 film version - featuring Tom Hanks playing against type as an organized crime gunman, a scuzzy Jude Law, a pre-007 Daniel Craig, and the final silver-screen role for Paul Newman - Road to Perdition first arrived in this world as a graphic novel that was appropriately illustrated in a desolate black & white format. "Save a place for me, friend." - Michael O'Sullivan, a.k.a. "See you in hell, 'Angel'!" - shotgun-wielding mook, trying to send the protagonist to his grave
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