Drive

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" ( The New York Times Book Review ) and an instant classic.

DRIVE

Comics & Graphic Novels

Sallis,James

Graphic Novels

Mariner Books

David applies his Cold War spying skills to track a former colleague across the country

Death Will Have Your Eyes: A Novel About Spies

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Mulholland Books takes pleasure in restoring to print an acclaimed novel of espionage and suspense by the author of Drive. David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. For almost a decade he has been out of the game, working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. David is tasked with stopping him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the American landscape, through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board. Both a suspenseful novel of pursuit and a thematically rich exploration of the mind of a spy, Death Will Have Your Eyes is a contemporary classic of the espionage genre.

Death Will Have Your Eyes: A Novel about Spies

Mulholland Books

Accepting a missing persons case in New Orleans, black private investigator Lew Griffin patrols the seamy side of the French Quarter, only to unveil a nightmare that parallels his own experiences and discover that his son has been kidnapped. Reprint.

The Long-Legged Fly

Genre Fiction

Avon/Books

When a former lover is murdered, former P.I. and New Orleans teacher Lew Griffin is compelled to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the victim's daughter, who abandoned her crack-addicted infant. Reprint.

Moth (Lew Griffin)

During the racial turbulence of the sixties, after a sniper kills his companion, a white woman, African American detective Lew Griffin must make sense of this murder with the help of a mixed group of allies

Black Hornet

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, and Christina HendricksDriver works as a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. He drives, that’s all—until he’s double-crossed.“One stark and stunning tale of murder, treachery, and deceit . . . [Drive] packs a wallop.”—Boston Globe“A perfect piece of noir fiction . . . focus[ing] on those hollowed-out moments when a man’s moral landscape suddenly shifts and he’s plunged into darkness.”—New York Times Book Review“Imagine the heart of Jim Thompson beating in the poetic chest of James Sallis and you’ll have some idea of the beauty, sadness and power of Drive.”—Chicago TribuneAn Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of the Year

War Book

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Panther

"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music was built on the backs of black slaves." The great classical blues period of the 1920s had rich antecedents going back further than plantation orchestras featuring fiddles and bajos. The introduction of the guitar, at first not a solo instrument, really demonstrated rhythmic ingenuity. Sallis shows how folk music and a cross-fertilization of traditions and techniques resulted in blues, ragtime, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and country-western. He writes eloquently about fourteen transitional or pivotal performers: the Mississippi Sheiks; Lonnie Johnson, the first virtuoso blues guitarist; Eddie Lang, the first great jazz guitarist; Roy Smeck, the foremost popularizer of guitar playing; Charlie Christian, the founder of modern jazz guitar; Riley Puckett, the first great country-music guitarist; T-Bone Walker, "daddy of the blues"; George Barnes; Hank Garland; Wes Montgomery, the jazz innovator; Mike Bloomfield, the heavy-rock guitarist; Ry Cooder; Ralph Towner; and Lenny Breau.

The Guitar Players: One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music

Arts & Photography

Music

William Morrow & Co.

THE GUITAR PLAYERS.

MORROW. NY 1982

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