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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Two-time Edgar winner Klavan again puts his own quirky spin on classic noir in his slam-bang third contemporary crime thriller to feature PIs Scott Weiss and Jim Bishop (after 2004's Shotgun Alley). Paunchy, moralistic Weiss, head of the Weiss Detective Agency in San Francisco, is still searching for bewitching prostitute Julie Wyant (aka Julie Angel), who's threatened by a relentless murderer the press has dubbed "the Shadowman." Weiss's nihilistic operative, Bishop, ignores all caution to help his boss. The terse, third-person narration occasionally switches to first person as Klavan, who claims to have worked for Weiss, inserts himself in the story, which he describes as a fictionalized memoir. While this authorial intrusion may interrupt the main action, it leads to some hilarious consequences. After drawing the reader in with a gripping plot and engrossing characters, Klavan produces a jolt at the end when he slyly reveals that... it's all fiction!
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From AudioFile
Klavan's third novel featuring Scott Weiss finds the PI scouring the country for a prostitute who has become the fixation of a hit man. Weiss's gift for intuitively knowing people squares off against the killer's ability to strategize and remain unseen until he's ready to strike. Klavan's narration can best be described as caricatured. He delivers a hard-boiled detective story with a voice that could turn listeners toward or away from future narrations by him. His purposeful toughness in male characterizations echoes film noir vocal mannerisms as do the alluring tones of his female characters. The narrator's overall tone adds to story's atmosphere of pulp fiction, which may or may not be to the listener's taste. L.E. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Two-time Edgar winner Klavan again puts his own quirky spin on classic noir in his slam-bang third contemporary crime thriller to feature PIs Scott Weiss and Jim Bishop (after 2004's Shotgun Alley). Paunchy, moralistic Weiss, head of the Weiss Detective Agency in San Francisco, is still searching for bewitching prostitute Julie Wyant (aka Julie Angel), who's threatened by a relentless murderer the press has dubbed "the Shadowman." Weiss's nihilistic operative, Bishop, ignores all caution to help his boss. The terse, third-person narration occasionally switches to first person as Klavan, who claims to have worked for Weiss, inserts himself in the story, which he describes as a fictionalized memoir. While this authorial intrusion may interrupt the main action, it leads to some hilarious consequences. After drawing the reader in with a gripping plot and engrossing characters, Klavan produces a jolt at the end when he slyly reveals that... it's all fiction!
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From AudioFile
Klavan's third novel featuring Scott Weiss finds the PI scouring the country for a prostitute who has become the fixation of a hit man. Weiss's gift for intuitively knowing people squares off against the killer's ability to strategize and remain unseen until he's ready to strike. Klavan's narration can best be described as caricatured. He delivers a hard-boiled detective story with a voice that could turn listeners toward or away from future narrations by him. His purposeful toughness in male characterizations echoes film noir vocal mannerisms as do the alluring tones of his female characters. The narrator's overall tone adds to story's atmosphere of pulp fiction, which may or may not be to the listener's taste. L.E. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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