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  • The Savage

  • A Novel
  • By: Frank Bill
  • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
  • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (34 ratings)

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The Savage

By: Frank Bill
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
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Publisher's summary

Frank Bill's America has always been stark and violent. In his new novel, he takes things one step further: the dollar has failed; the grid is wiped out.

Van Dorn is 18 and running solo, dodging the bloodthirsty hordes and militias that have emerged since the country went haywire. His dead father's voice rings in his head as Van Dorn sets his sights not just on survival but also on an old-fashioned system of justice.

Meanwhile, a leader has risen among the gangs - and around him swirls the cast of brawlers from Donnybrook, with their own brutal sense of right and wrong, of loyalty and justice through strength.

This is not the distant post-apocalyptic future - this is tomorrow, in a world Bill has already introduced us to. Now he raises the stakes and turns his shotgun prose on our addiction to technology, the values and skills we've lost in the process, and what happens when the last systems of morality and society collapse.

The Savage presents the bone-chilling vision of an America where power is the only currency and nothing guarantees survival, and it presents Bill at his most ambitious, most eloquent, and most powerful.

©2017 Frank Bill (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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Good premise, good story beats, weird writing.

This is a continuation of Donnybrook, so read that first. I didn’t know that going in.

If you’re into brutality, it’s got plenty. “Gratuitous” is a good word.

Mostly the dialogue is bizarre. Some characters speak normally at times, at other times say things that sound like Arabic translated to German then to English.

Narrator is doing a good job, pleasant.

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No fun violence porn

Unlike other books of his I have read, this drudge was nothing more than a litany of situations, violent and relentlessly ugly, without a smidge of humor or cleverness to offset the misery. I just couldn't go on after getting through the first half.

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