A review by sir_scott
Death Wish by Brian Garfield

3.0

Truly a 2.5 star. Death Wish is actually a statement on how idealistic optimism isn’t able to protect individuals, families, or society. The story focuses more on the man’s struggle in realizing his liberal views and practices led him to feel good about himself while avoiding the realities of real problems and how that ideology actually rewards evil doers at the cost of creating more victims and then dismissing the victims as not really suffering cruelty and loss.
On a critical negative note, unlike the film, the criminals in the book are mostly thieves and drug addicts—- where as in the film Paul only reacts to violent crimes in progress.