The Adjustment by Scott Phillips, 217 pages.
Scott Phillips has written a slim novel of post-war noir that packs a brutal punch. Wayne Ogden, our narrator, is nobody's hero. He spent the war as a supply sergeant in the Quartermaster Corps, which allowed him to make extra money selling his stock on the black market and gave him plenty of time to supplement his Army income by moonlighting as a pimp. Back home in Wichita, Wayne now spends his days trying to figure out various ways to ruin the life of his boss, Everett Collins, the owner of Collins Aircraft, while also trying to figure out who is sending him anonymous letters, threatening him over the death of a prostitute back during the war. A great read with a thoroughly unlikeable character. By the author of The Ice Harvest.
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