Wait a minute... You saw the movie, and then you were surprised at the level of violence in the books?? The The Hard Goodbye section of the film is almost shot-for-shot the book. They used the graphic novel as a story board, for crying out loud! I can't even count the number of deaths in the movie. And you're surprised that the books were the same way??
A Dame to Kill For is the earlier story of Dwight, the Clive Owen character. In the movie (and in the novel The Big Fat Kill, the third book, upon which the Dwight section of the film is based), there's brief reference to Dwight getting "a new face". In ADTKF, we find out about that. As far as I remember, Dwight was never a cop. What we know about him is, he's a sucker for a woman in distress, and he's a real mean drunk who's gone straight.
Listen, the art is BRILLIANT in the books, and the stories are graphic and gruesome, but that's part of their charm. Like the film, part of the joy is seeing just how far it'll go.
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