'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for'Ian Rankin'A friggin'masterpiece'Dennis Lehane'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists'George PelecanosMeet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue. Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes - everything from grand theft auto to criminal stupidity. All washed down with a hearty dose of whiskey and regret.At the end of a three-week hunt for a runaway bestselling author,Sughrue winds up in a ramshackle bar,with an alcoholic bulldog. The landlady's daughter vanished a decade ago and now she wants Sughrue to find her. His search will take him to the deepest,darkest depths of San Francisco's underbelly,a place as fascinating,frightening and flawed as he is. Welcome to James Crumley's America.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdISBN: 9781784161583Number of pages: 384Weight: 264 gDimensions: 198 x 126 x 25 mm
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Crumley writes like an angel on speedThe poet laureate of American hard-boiled literature,superior even to James Lee Burke in his ability to evoke extreme melancholy,gruesome violence and an acute sense of landscapeReading Crumley is like hurtling through an assault course...funny,salty and ruthless...one of the marvels of contemporary crime writingLike James Ellroy,he is a master of American vernacular,turning tough-guy slang into something like poetryJames Crumley,a critically acclaimed crime novelist whose drug-infused,alcohol-soaked,profanity-laced,breathtakingly violent books swept the hard-boiled detective from the Raymond Chandler era into an amoral,utterly dissolute,apocalyptic post-Vietnam universe
James Crumley
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Best know for his Rebusseries,they deliver hard-boiled crime with a distinct Scottish flavour- sometimes cheesily referred to as "Tartan Noir". DI John Rebus is an old-fashioned copper with a love of off-kilter music,and the odd refreshment.
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