- Reviews -
Follow an unforgettable cast of characters as they navigate
The System in Ryan Gattis' pacy, polyphonic, hyper-real crime novel.
Gripping, meticulously-researched and smartly-plotted,
I devoured this brilliant novel over the course of a weekend. -- Paula Hawkins
The System is
a tour de force that shatters all the usual categories: It is
a page-turner, but one you will want to read slowly in order to savor every gorgeous sentence. It's got bad guys and good guys, but you're never quite sure who belongs in which category. And if a novel is magical when you feel like you know the characters intimately, and like them, despite the fact they are mostly people you would ordinarily cross the street to avoid, then
Ryan Gattis is a magician. -- David Dow, author of
Confessions of an Innocent ManThe System took me back, powerfully, to my incarceration in the early 90s. Wow. I relate so much to this book, it's painful. I could swear I did time with one of these characters in County.
That's how real this novel is. I had to keep reminding myself it was fiction. Front to back,
it's not just an incredible work,it's an experience. Especially for those with no idea what it's like to be inside. -- Gustavo
'Goose' Alvarez, author of
The Pawn and
Prison RamenSAFE is a propulsive thriller that confirms Ryan Gattis as one of our most gifted novelists. The book has unstoppable momentum yet is as finely layered and detailed with the gritty truth of life and the streets as I've ever read. It shoots you down a path that is fraught with surprise and insight, and you can't ask for more than that. -- Michael Connelly, creator of the Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller series.
Praise for Ryan Gattis' last book - Safe:
A thrilling heist novel with a big beating heart
-- Paula Hawkins, author of
Girl on the trainTenderness in the midst of stories of brutality,
Safe is the perfect read to have in your suitcase * GQ *
Inherently compelling. This macho, faster-than-a-speeding-bullet novel benefits from the extensive research Gattis has done on the L.A. gang scene and that deep knowledge informs electrifying plot twists. * Time *
A literary novel and a thriller with more twists than a DVD box-set make quite a combination. There is a lathed quality to Ryan Gattis's prose, which is reminiscent of Raymond Carver or Ernest Hemingway. Gattis is superb with the staccato sentence, honed to a few words. I have previously been enthusiastic about Gattis's polyphonic All Involved; this duet shows he is as assured on a closer frame. * The Scotsman *
No ordinary gangster cat-and-mouse chase . . . While the gangsters-with-a-heart story might sound improbable, Gattis compensates with whip-smart vernacular and a narrative that zips along. Gattis has created a gripping novel about opportunity, transformation and hope. * Observer *
Praise for All Involved:
'A symphonic, pitch-perfect, superlative novel. It is visceral and adrenalin-fuelled, yet tender and even darkly comic. It is audacious, unflinching and subversive. It doesn't judge. It swallowed me whole.'
-- David Mitchell
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