A review by logantea
Marathon Man by William Goldman

1.0

Yikes. I wanted to like this book. And for a while I thought I might. It goes down easy, it's well paced, and it's technically sound. However, by the end I despised it. You can find subtle bigotry for pretty much every marginalized group in the book (and not just at the hands of the Nazis). The dialog is so constantly snarky in a way the author clearly thought was cool but just becomes annoying. And the main character is maybe the most frustrating trope ever - a weak, sniveling, incapable creep who somehow over the course of a couple days turns himself into a honed killing machine who outguns, outwits, and outfights everyone who has been in this game way longer than him.