OLD AND COLD by Jim Nisbet The Overlook Press, July 2012 160 pgs. $13.50 paperback
Review by Ian Singleton
Old and Cold is a bum who walks the streets of San Francisco, sleeps under the bridge, and assassinates designated people for $5000 a head. Give that bum an existential tramp mentality approaching a conversation between Vladimir and Estragon, and you have one hell of a martini – the protagonist’s preferred poison, with which he sips away each of those five grand payoffs. This protagonist is also our storyteller, alongside his interior dialogue sidekick superego “the smart money,” wrapped up in
