A Stop At The Bank

November, 2009

Scorpions, the Boston-based anti-establish­ment book club that celebrates "hard-guy" books, has gotten a debate rolling on the web. Which are the best hard-guy books of all time? Tops on its list: Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Here are our top 10 books worth their weight in blood: (1) The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. (2) To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, (3) Shoot the Piano Player by David Goodis, (4) Nobody Move by Denis Johnson, (5) (of course) Blood Meridian bv Corm...