Death Will Have Your Eyes: A Novel About Spies

James Sallis

Literature & Fiction

Diane Pub Co.

A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive.
Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her smalltown chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, courtordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the mysterious disappearance of the sheriff whose shoes she's filling and the even more mysterious realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest friends.
In the tradition of James Crumley's The Last Good Kiss and Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley, this kaleidoscopic character study sparkles in every dark and bright detail a virtuoso work by amaster of both the noir and the tender aspects of human nature.
Praise for James Sallis
'Sallis creates vivid images in very few words and his taut, pared-down prose is distinctive and powerful. The result is a small masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph
'Crime novels seldom come as lean and mean...essential noir existentialism' Guardian
'The perfect piece of noir fiction' New York Times Book Review
'Sallis is a fastidious man, intelligent and widely read. There's nothing slapdash or merely strategic about his work ... peculiar and visionary' Iain Sinclair, London Review of Books

Sarah Jane

No Exit Press

Crimewave: The Last Sunset: Last Sunsset v. 7

CHRISTOPHER FOWLER

Stephen Volk

Mat Coward

Muriel GRAY

John, Grant

Tim Casson

Ray Nayler

Crimewave

Marion Arnott

Gary Couzens

Debbie Moon

Steve Mohn

TTA Press

Drive (Driver)

Business & Money

Blackstone Publishing

A derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take the real detective/writer Lew Griffin into his own past.

Eye of the Cricket: A Lew Griffin Mystery (Library Binding)

United States

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

Eye of the Cricket: A Lew Griffin Mystery

Salt River

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''Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate nearby, the sound of someone weeping in the next room . . . ''    Thus begins Drive, the story of a man who works as a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. He drives, that's all -- until he's double-crossed. Powerful and stylistically brilliant, Drive has been hailed by critics as the ''perfect piece of noir fiction'' (New York Times Book Review) and an instant classic . . . and now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, and Bryan Cranston. The film won the Award for Best Director at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

[Read by Paul Michael Garcia] At the end of the initial novel, Drive, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, ''the only one he mourned,'' ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how the young man, done with killing, later will become the one who goes down ''at 3 a.m. on a clear, cool morning in a Tijuana bar.'' Seven years have passed. Driver has left the old life, become Paul West, and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. Walking down the street one day, he and his fiancee' are attacked by two men, and while Driver dispatches both, his fiancee' is killed. Sinking back into anonymity, aided by his friend, Felix, an ex-gang member and Desert Storm vet, Driver retreats but finds that his past stalks him and will not stop. He has to turn and face it. Because he drives. That's what he does.

Driven

Blackstone Audiobooks

Willnot

A brilliant new protagonist and his memorable community are introduced in the latest masterpiece by acclaimed novelist James Sallis.In his celebrated career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them thoughtful observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the black New Orleans private investigator; retired detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive. Dr. Lamar Hale will now join the ranks of Sallis' finest characters.In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have suddenly been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Hale, the town's all-purpose general practitioner, surgeon, and conscience. At the same time, Bobby Lowndes -- a man being followed by the FBI -- mysteriously reappears in his hometown at Hale's door. Over the ensuing months, the daily dramas Hale faces as he tends to his town and to his partner, Richard, collide with the inexplicable vagaries of life in Willnot. And when a gunshot aimed at Lowndes critically wounds Richard, Hale's world is truly upended.In his inimitable spare style, James Sallis conjures indelible characters and scenes that resonate long after they appear. ''You live with someone year after year, you think you've heard all the stories,'' Lamar observes, ''but you never have.''

Literary

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