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A hard-drinking private eye sets out to find a missing writer and slowly realizes that he is really being used to find a woman who disappeared ten years before
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"Crumley writes like an angel on speed" (Time Out)
"The 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 landscape" (Guardian)
"Reading Crumley is like hurtling through an assault course...funny, salty and ruthless...one of the marvels of contemporary crime writing" (Literary Review)
"Like James Ellroy, he is a master of American vernacular, turning tough-guy slang into something like poetry" (Independent)
"James 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" (New York Times)
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"The 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 landscape" (Guardian)
"Reading Crumley is like hurtling through an assault course...funny, salty and ruthless...one of the marvels of contemporary crime writing" (Literary Review)
"Like James Ellroy, he is a master of American vernacular, turning tough-guy slang into something like poetry" (Independent)
"James 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" (New York Times)
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- PublisherPocket Books
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0671498894
- ISBN 13 9780671498894
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