Welcome to Litsy!

“He felt moved by an uncontrollable impulse. All his actions had completed themselves before his mind was aware of them. His mind was struggling along aimlessly in pursuit of his actions, impotently deprecating them and whispering warnings. But it was powerless.”

Certainly fast-paced, with a palpably paranoid and seedy atmosphere, but Gallagher was a creep and I found the descriptions of some of the characters patronizing.