Reviewed by John Burdett
20th January 2008
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America’s brittle
and mutating id. This is not the argument of Charles Bock’s exceptional
Beautiful Children, so much as the fact from which he explores the survival
strategies – usually doomed – of the citizen-mutants themselves. Continue Reading…
A Higher Pulp
John Burdett Takes the Low Road to Enlightenment
Few crimes make us fear for the evolution of our species. I am watching one right now.
John Burdett practiced law for 14 years in London and Hong Kong until he was able to retire to write full time. He has lived in France, Spain, Hong Kong and the U.K. and now commutes between Bangkok and Southwest France.