Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
read: 2011
Time 100 Novels, Guardian 1000 Novels
Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest is considered a giant of the noir genre. Noir is a genre that I think works best on film, where the screen dances with moody blacks, whites, greys, and reds, and the actors can bring the dialogue to life with the machine-gun timing that the prose suggests. Red Harvest is as much action movie as noir, featuring a couple large-scale gang shootouts that would explode on the big screen. The novel is a good story and a fun read.
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