The Midnight Man (The Amos Walker Series #3) [Mass Market Paperback]

Loren D. Estelman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 12, 1987

The streetwise, city-smart, private-eye Amos Walker returns in Loren Estleman's tough and entertaining tale. Walker, a Vietnam vet and ex-MP, is hard-boiled with a soft interior. You cannot help but like him. Wherever he goes, the bullets fly and the blood flows freely.

The "midnight men" are out tonight, so lock the door and stay inside. Hide in your cozy suburbs; shut out the night and the world you can't begin to understand. Let Loren Estleman explore it for you. In this briskly moving case, Amos Walker prowls the pavement in search of a fanatic cop-killer with more than just a price on his head. His client wants a strange kind of vengeance for her husband's ruined life. A bounty hunter out of the West enters the case with a shadowy past that's best not to question.

Vengeance, terrorism, and assassination combine to give a taut and swift string of final revelations. Estleman captures his audience once again.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Forbes Estleman's intriguing, frequently malignant or low-life characters are richly drawn, truly three-dimensional. Mystery aficionados compare his prose to Ross Macdonald's and Raymond Chandler's. As a Macdonald fan, I can testify this writer does that master one better. -- Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

From the Inside Flap

The Bookcassette® format is a special recording technique developed as a means of condensing the full, unabridged audio text of a book to record it on fewer tapes. In order to listen to these tapes, you will need a cassette player with balance control to adjust left/right speaker output. Special adaptors to allow these tapes to be played on any cassette player are available through the publisher or some US retail electronics stores. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Fawcett Publishing Co (February 12, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449211355
• ISBN-13: 978-0449211359
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,019,105 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent entry in the Amos Walker series, March 16, 2001

By 

Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA) - See all my reviews
(HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Midnight Man (Amos Walker Mysteries) (Paperback)

"The Midnight Man" is a bit darker than usual for an Amos Walker novel. Death hangs omnipresent as the intrepid Walker tries to bring a cop killer to justice before he is killed by the police. Along the way he encounters black militants, a bounty hunter, a sex-starved cop's wife and more dead bodies than he would care to count. Author Loren D. Estleman runs his hero through the wringer in this adventure and it is a great ride indeed. Walker is everything a great P.I. ought to be, tough, sarcastic, somewhat alcoholic and beholden to a his own private code of justice. He is Phillip Marlowe updated for modern times.

This "I-Book" edition features the added bonus of an essay by the author regarding his inspiriations for the novel. Addtionally, it also has an Amos Walker short story, "Redneck" that comes along at the end like the desert to a fine meal. Overall a very worthwhile package.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Pass This One Over, October 24, 2001

By 

"frnick" (savannah, ga. United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Midnight Man (Amos Walker Mysteries) (Paperback)

There are a lot of better known writers today. But, there are none better than Estelman.The Amos Walker series is fun, exciting and challenging. Strong characters and good stories. If you like noir mysteries and the Chandler hardboiled style, you'll love Estelman. This entry is one of his finest. But, whatever Estelman(Amos Walker) book you begin with, you cannot go wrong.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Someone was standing on my eyelids...., April 14, 2007

By 

Archmaker (California) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: The Midnight Man (Amos Walker Mysteries) (Paperback)

Amos Walker is back,and Loren Estleman's Detroit PI is nearly killed on a surveillance job, and subsequently drawn into the case of finding the shooters in an ambush that leaves the cop that saved Walker in a wheelchair. It's the early 80's and Walker is chasing holdout 70's violent revolutionaries, aided and obstructed by cops and a giant cowboy bounty hunter, wise-cracking all the way.

Estleman's prose is lean and hard, and his stories move. He has staked out the gritty and unforgivng terrain of the Motor City and this is hardboiled fiction done like it should be done. No one is working this genre any better.