Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Scratch a Thief by John Trinian

Scratch a Thief
by John Trinian
1961 Ace Books
Reprinted by Stark House Press, 2016


An ex-con on parole can't catch a break living straight and participates in one last heist.  He's double-crossed, and he turns to the cop who hates him the most to rescue his kidnapped daughter.

Well written, but the plot is way too basic.  The story is 90% being miserable, the heist takes like two pages, and the ending is literally everyone meets, shoots each other, and the good guys live.

I try to be fair to older books that use these cliches, as it was less well-worn at the time, but all I could think of was almost the exact same story from Captain America comics involving a giant armadillo man.

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