Hawk's Last Case is a beaut of a detective novel. It's got everything genre fanciers crack the covers for: a private eye protagonist with a hard-boiled hide and a touchable heart, a secretary who calls him "Boss, " a full complement of Irish cops, close scrapes and a sense of danger that accelerates like a general's pulse on entering the War Room.
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New heroes, New myth!!,
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This review is from: Hawk's Last Case (Hawk Trilogy) (Paperback)
I'm a young writer who thinks that what Keith Kirts is trying to do is really important. His books have no affinities with the standard European novel, but are wholly American in a way that is excitingly obvious from the first page. The dialogue and descriptions never sound artificial to conform to some pompous idea of literature. Instead they are melifluously consistent with everyday speech, without abandoning the artistry of words. HAWK'S LAST CASE is just one in a long list of Kirts' unique masterpieces. His affection for the L.A. area comes into play again, this time as the setting for a "Who done it" detective novel. But behind the familiar chase is a fresh new world of Kirts' own making, due in part to his terrific cast of characters. Cable Hawkins, the detective, is more of a shiftless bohemian trying to have fun in life than a shrewd tank of intellect. His girlfriend has a risque aura about her, and claims to dabble in prostitution now and then. His client is a talented and sexy female jockey. And lurking on the perimeter of the story is the haughty effete ex-surfer guy who plays backgammon, Hawk's enemy. Kirts' insights as he narrarates the story are both humorous and astute, even poetic at times. Read it.
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