The Last Spin is an English novel. Evan Hunter has written this short story. Story tells about two club members from rival clubs. Those two clubs decide to solve their quarrel with one guy from both clubs playing Russian roulette because they don’t want fight on the streets.
The story starts when story’s two main characters Tigo and Danny are sitting in the small basement room. First they were like normal rival club members, with little excitement in the air. In Russian roulette you must put one cartridge in the cylinder and twirl the cylinder and then put the gun against your head and pull the trigger. Odds for that you are going to die is one-in-six. Both survives the first stage and they but other cartridge in the cylinder. They are lucky and still survive. At same they have started to talk about their lives. They tell about their families and girlfriends. But they must keep playing. Odds in third stage are one-in-two. Both pull the trigger but only what they can hear is “click”. They keep speaking and notice that they don’t like their clubs other members very much. They understand each other and become friends. They still keep playing and put fourth cartridge in the cylinder. Tigo still make it. It is Danny’s turn. They agreed to go rowing on the lake at next Sunday if Danny survives. Danny pulls the trigger and like Evan Hunter writes: “The explosion rocked the small basement room, ripping away half of Danny’s head, shattering his face.”
I expected totally different ending to this short story. I thought everything will end happy and both survives and become good friends.
I think “The Last Spin” was pretty good but not a masterpiece. I think the story repeat itself little too much, nothing different didn’t happen for a long time. Story was still well written and interesting. The language in this novel was pretty easy to understand. There still was some hard words example some slang words and little bit guns special glossary.