The Suicide Run

In his elegant, sometimes ornate, prose, Styron balances a loathing of military life with a respect for the human nobility it grants the most unlikely candidates

Daily Telegraph

Quite brilliant

Esquire

Styron's ornate prose has a wonderful rhythmic flow. The title story, a sultry, white-knuckle sex odyssey across the US, is a particular gem. Told with a frenetic humour that bleeds out into lyrical disquiet, it paints a vivid picture of young men trying in vain to drown out their own death knell

Irish Times

There's such a depth to the characterization and mood here, with doubt, guilt, bravado, lust and more to be felt by the heroes, who of course never fit any such token template

thebookbag.co.uk

This book will be welcomed by admirers of Styron's work

Times Literary Supplement

This group of previously unpublished stories by Pulitzer Prize-winner William Styron crackle with youthful virtuosity

Jeffrey Taylor, Sunday Express

What intrigues here is the way all soldiers, whether or not they ever see combat, still live with the notion: I am expendable canon fodder. And that sort of existential knowledge makes even the toughest Marine pause for thought

Douglas Kennedy, Independent