Your Friendly Neighborhood Criminal by Michael Van Rooy

Your Friendly Neighborhood Criminal by Michael Van Rooy, crime fiction, 325 pages.
Van Rooy's character, Monty Haaviko, Manitoba's friendliest brutal ex-con, is back. I didn't feel this was quite as well done as the author's first book, but since I just read on the back flap that the Van Rooy passed away in January, I am not going to rip into it. Most of my complaints were of the sort that some re-writing and polishing would have fixed. The author had a good voice and had made Monty into a convincing character; one who landed somewhere between Richard Stark's Parker and Lee Child's Reacher, as persons in whose way you did not want to be. An Ordinary Decent Criminal is the better of the two books Van Rooy wrote, but this is worth a read as well.