The third part of James Sallis'sequence of novels featuring Lew Griffin
In a time of anger,activism,and bitter racial tensions,a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer - by tearing up innocent people like paper targets. The shooter's sixth fatality is cut down while she is walking at Lew Griffin's side. The victim was white,Griffin is black - a reluctant young p.i. whose poet's heart has already been hardened by amoral injustice and heavy drink. And though he had only just met his unfortunate companion,Griffin knows it's up to him to find her killer - before a madman puts the final match to a volatile urban tinderbox.
Publisher: Bedford Square PublishersISBN: 9781842437049Number of pages: 192Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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James Sallis is doing some of the most interesting and provocative work in the field of private eye fiction. His New Orleans is richly atmospheric and darker than noir. Black Hornet is terrificWry... Powerful... A rich tapestry of social unrest and vividly evoked characters and settings... What Chester Himes did for Harlem... and Walter Mosley is now doing for Los Angeles,James Sallis is doing for New OrleansHaunting... Black Hornet is fast-moving,elliptical,and like a jazz trumpet solo,has a plaintive note of melancholy woven through itSallis wants to harmonise detective fiction and'literature'and succeeds so well that,like Walter Mosley,we scarcely even noticeA thoughtful,existential tale told in evocative prose
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