Total Bad Ass

[tcbonline]

I want some recommendations for books where the protagonist is, for lack of a better term, a "total bad a$$". In other words, a hard-boiled tough guy, he talks tough, is tough, and is here to chew bubble gum and kick a$$ and he's all out of bubble gum!

Ideas??

 

[Stewart]

Moved the thread to here and delete the duplicate. This is the area for such things.

 

[sparkchaser]

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson might fit the bill.

 

[FoxxyDeda]

Takeshi Kovacs from Richard K. Morgan's "Altered Carbon" and "Broken Angels" is a bad a$$. A nhammy one at that

 

[letterHead]

The Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child, maybe? Reacher is an ex-Military Policeman travelling around America and gets mixed up in all sorts of nasty situations.

 

[lenny nero]

Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter

 

[Vair]

The Dark Tower

I haven't read them myself (though I plan to), but Stephen King's The Dark Tower series is supposedly pretty awesome. The protagonist is a hero known as the "Gunslinger". He's based off of Clint Eastwood and my close friends tell me he is one of their favorite heroes.

 

[Jimmylegs]

Drive by James Sallis. A stunt driver turned criminal marked for death. Very noir.

 

[Koda]

Dirty White Boys by Stephen Hunter

I know this is an old thread, but I totally agree!! Pale Horse Coming by Stephen Hunter is another.

 

[Murphy]

Joe Pitt, the protagonist in the Charlie Huston books, is very rough! Case solving with lots of violence along the way. Very good series, first is Already Dead

 

[Rivera Books]

The Proud Bastards by E. Michael Helms

 

[Kupov]

To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway (I think)

Harry Morgan is quite the tough guy.

The entire Dark Tower series (though as previously mentioned I only finished 3) Roland definitely fits the description of badass.