Every Brilliant Eye [Paperback]

Loren D Estleman (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Macmillan London (1986)
• ASIN: B000OUUWGI
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Since the appearance of his first novel in 1976, Loren D. Estleman has written more than 65 books and hundreds of short stories and articles. Alone (Dec 2009, Forge Books) is the second in a new series about L.A. film detective Valentino, and features Greta Garbo.

To kick off the new decade, Estleman's The Book of Murdock (eighth in the U.S. Deputy Marshal Page Murdock series) will appear in March and, to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of Private Detective Amos Walker, The Left-Handed Dollar will publish in December. It's the 20th novel in the award-winning series.

An authority on both criminal history and the American West, Estleman has been called the most critically acclaimed author of his generation. He has been nominated for the National Book Award and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award.

He has received seventeen national writing awards: four Shamuses from the Private Eye Writers of America, five Spurs from the Western Writers of America, two American Mystery Awards from Mystery Scene Magazine, two Outstanding Mystery Writer of the Year awards from Popular Fiction Monthly, two Stirrup Awards for outstanding articles in the Western Writers of America magazine, The Roundup, and three Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. In 1987, the Michigan Foundation of the Arts presented him with its award for literature. In 1997, the Michigan Library Association named him the recipient of the Michigan Author's Award. In 2007, Nicotine Kiss was named a Notable Book by the Library of Michigan.

Estleman graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Journalism. On April 27, 2002, EMU presented him with an honorary doctorate in letters. He left the job market in 1980 to write full time. He lives in Michigan and is married to writer Deborah Morgan. For more information, please visit his website: www.lorenestleman.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Tough Guy, eh?, April 14, 2007

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This review is from: Every Brilliant Eye (The Amos Walker Series #6) (Paperback)

This is my first Loren D. Estleman book featuring his tough Detroit PI, Amos Walker. After the gratifying, but more "honored" works of James Lee Burke and Michael Connelley and Robert Crais, I found Estleman's hard-boiled prose imbued with the tough, wiseguy attitude both refreshing and perfectly pitched to capture the mean streets of the Motor City.

Upon finishing, I bought nearly a dozen of Estleman's Walker books on Amazon, ranging as far back as possible up to the present, and am working my way through this, to me, previously unknown, but very talented, and very prolific author's works. And I am enjoying it immensely.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another solid entry in the Amos Walker series, April 7, 2001

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Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Every Brilliant Eye (The Amos Walker Series #6) (Hardcover)

"Every Brilliant Eye" is the sixth novel in the Amos Walker private detective series. Walker is a lonely, quick witted and highly principled P.I. who knows his native Detroit inside and out. In this novel, Walker is trying to locate an old friend he served with in Vietnam and in the process reveals more about his past than he ever had previously. He also becomes involved with the bewitching book editor Louise Starr, a holdover character from the previous Walker novel, "Sugartown." The only negative is that the story's police corruption angle is a bit shopworn. The Vietnam angle adds considerable weight and the ending is appropriately violent.

Look for the i-books vintage paperback edition of this novel to be released sometime in Summer 2001. The i-books editions of the Walker series are first rate paperbacks with extra goodies added, including an afterword by the author.

4.0 out of 5 stars There are better Amos Walker books, but its still good., September 30, 2009

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Brett T. Mccoy "Tech Teacher" (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Every Brilliant Eye (The Amos Walker Series #6) (Paperback)

I picked this book up at a library sale with no previous knowledge of the Amos Walker novels. I have since read 6 of them. If you are a fine of private detective fiction you will enjoy these books. Amos Walker is the perfect PI, cynical, ethical to a fault, relentless, and gets beat up a lot. He also has a dry sense of humor that is reminiscent of Philip Marlowe without obviously mimicking him.

This is not the best Walker mystery but it's still a good read. I have never been to Detroit, but I imagine the board tourism there is not a fan of Amos Walker, his Detroit is a gritty, dangerous and desperate place full of neighborhoods no one should visit, fantastic fiction.