Night Dogs (Mulholland Classic) - Softcover

Anderson, Kent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316489549 ISBN 13: 9780316489546

Publisher: Mulholland Books, 2019

Synopsis

Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's "fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing" police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).
Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's North Precinct: those who are sent there for punishment, and those who come for the action. Officer Hanson is the second kind, a veteran who survived the war in Vietnam only to decide he wanted to keep fighting at home. Hanson knows war, and in this battle for the Portland streets, he fights not for the law but for his own code of justice.
Yet Hanson can't outrun his memories of another, warmer battleground. A past he thought he'd left behind, that now threatens to overshadow his future. An enemy, this time close to home, is prying into his war record. Pulling down the shields that protect the darkest moments of that fevered time. Until another piece of his past surfaces, and Hanson risks his career, his sanity--even his life--for honor.

About this title

Review:

"Night Dogs is not just a fine book, it is an important book."--James Crumley

"The best and truest novel about crime and the police I have ever read. Kent Anderson isn't just at the top of those writing about cops and robbers, he's in a whole other class."--James Patterson

"Writing with a ferocity that makes your head buzz."--New York Times Book Review

"A startling and insistent voice. Read this one if you dare."--Cleveland Plain Dealer

About the Author:

Kent Anderson is a U.S. Special Forces veteran who served in Vietnam and a former police officer in Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California. With an MFA in creative writing from the University of Montana, he has taught college-level English and written screenplays. His two other novels, Sympathy for the Devil and Green Sun, both feature Hanson. Anderson may be the only person in U.S. history to have won two NEA grants for creative writing as well as two Bronze Stars. He lives in New Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0316489549
• ISBN 13: 9780316489546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496