I just got through reading London Boulevard by Ken Bruen. I started today about  2PM and finished at about 10:30 tonight. Its only 250 pages but I just couldn’t stop reading it.

It is a retelling of  the movie Sunset Boulevard but amped up, made more explicit, set in modern day London and given a few twists. The protagonist is not a movie writer, he is Mitchell, a small time but dangerous criminal just out of prison after a three year term of aggravated assault. The older lady is not Nora Desmond but Lillian Palmer a former star of the stage who has been waiting for the right vehicle for her return to stardom. She is tended to by her loyal butler Jordan.

I found the book to be fantastic and give it a rare four stars out of four. I’ll be checking out more of Ken Bruen’s books!