Dan Simmons writes the best SciFi ever (Hyperion, Endymion, Ilium etc.), also best historical fiction ever (Terror!!!) and fantastically good horror (Summer of Night). He writes in all genres, and is good in all genres.

Well, this one here is brutal crime, and I read it in two days. So it was fun and the plot kept me going. Yet it wasn't the usual Simmons, but then I got to know him in different genres. This here is maybe a genre that needs a certain structure?

In any case, our protagonist, I feel, is a mix of Philip Marlowe and Jack Reacher. And he gets involved with a fun pack of crime professionals and wannabes and leaves a trail of dead bodies in his wake.

Yet again: the plot kept going, the pace was great, the action decisive. Except from the cover, I liked it.