Green Sun by Kent Anderson, Book Review
Wow … wow … wow. This book gets three wows from me. When I saw the following quote by Mark Billingham on the back cover of Green Sun ,‘The most powerful cop novel ever written’, I thought, hmmm, let me be the judge of that (me as in reader, not me as in reviewer). Well, I can’t say Green Sun is the best cop novel ever written, haven’t read them all, but what I can say, is that it is excellent indeed. I intentionally don’t find out about the author before reading a book, but this one is so authentic that you wonder if it’s autobiographical. And to some extent it probably is. The author Kent Anderson is a US Special Forces veteran, his protagonist Hanson fought in Vietnam. Kent Anderson was a police officer in Oakland, Hanson too is a cop in Oakland. Anderson taught college level English, Hanson too was an English lecturer before becoming a cop again. The structure of the book is interesting as well. Each chapter is a self-contained episode in the lif...