![]() ![]() And though DeStefano opens Cocaine Kill with Mondo on the same hospital bed upon which he died, he glosses over the man's actual death and just has him recuperating from the massive (ie fatal) wounds he suffered in the climax of Mondo. So it's quite strange that DeStefano and/or Manor Books decided to bring him back. ![]() In fact, Cocaine Kill, despite having a great title, is mostly a tepid bore.Īs I mentioned in my review of Mondo, that novel easily worked as a standalone, which it apparently was - I mean, not to spoil it for anyone, but Mondo died in the last sentence of that novel. Mondo #2: Cocaine Kill, by Anthony DeStefanoĪnthony DeStefano's Mondo was one of the best novels I read last year, a grim and gritty blast of what I like to call "bell-bottom fury." So it's with much dismay that I report that this follow-up, published two years later, just can't compare with that earlier volume. ![]()
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