The backstory of
Cassidy's Girl is that Cassidy used to have a comfty job on an airplane but he was blamed for a crash that wasn't his fault. Afterwards he got addicted to booze and from there he met his nasty wife Mildred. Although the sex is great, the relationship has a lot of problems. He begins to look elsewhere and gets attached to Doris, a woman who is even more addicted to booze than him. Even though he dumped Mildred there's a man obsessed with her who starts bothering him. Then his life gets enomrously bad. I'm not going to say how but it was over the top. The journey from there is fun to read. The surprise of the book is that Mildred isn't as bad as the reader was first inclined to believe. David Goodis wrote
Dark Passage, which was made into a famous Bogart moive. He was of noir's best writers . I've read a few of his books and I have to say this was the funnest.
