Oh, hell yes. I’ve read Stephen Hunter’s Dirty White Boys, and found it to be a thrilling, visceral slice of pulp fiction. Here’s the plot, via Amazon:
They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary–three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them….
Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars–for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose….
Odell is Lamar’s cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him….
Richard’s survival hangs on a sketch: a crude drawing of a lion and a half-naked woman. For this Lamar has let Richard live…Armed to the teeth, Lamar and his boys have cut a path of terror across the Southwest, and pushed one good cop into a crisis of honor and conscience. Trooper Bud Pewtie should have died once at Lamar’s hands. Now they’re about to meet again. And this time, only one of them will walk away….
Ain’t It Cool is reporting that Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have been tapped to write and direct an adaptation of Hunter’s novel. This is exciting news; Dirty White Boys is a fantastic story, propelled by breathless momentum, and since Benioff and Weiss proved with Game of Thrones that they can film the unfilmable, Hunter’s book should be no problem for them.
I have no idea when they’ll get to filming Dirty White Boys, since Game of Thrones was just renewed for a fifth and a sixth season, but I have no doubt that this will be a great film, in the vein of Tarantino or Peckinpah.
(Another great read: Hunter’s Pale Horse Coming)
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