(pb; 1977: movie tie-in novel,
From the back cover
“He was a cop who ‘got a job done.’
“She was a hooker set up by both the law and the mob to have a job done on her.
“They were two people with nothing
left to do but run.”
Review
Gauntlet is a fun,
comic book-ish movie tie-in that tries to ground its absurd action-fantasy cinematic counterpart in some semblance of reality and largely succeeds. Penned by
Butler and Shryack, who also wrote the screenplay, they add small details and
background to their lead characters (including a nice meta-crack about “Dirty Harry”), giving some heft to Gauntlet’s leads. Many of its situations,
especially in its last quarter, are still ridiculous but they’re less egregious
in their execution than in the film, which come as just silly. This book version
is worthwhile if you don’t expect too much and are just looking for something
violent but relatively light to fill an hour or two. Below is the iconic Boris Vallejo movie poster.
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