Death Will Have Your Eyes John le Carre meets the Coen brothers in this inspired road novel about secret agents on a mission to find meaning in their lives...…
David (as he's currently known) was one of an elite corps of spies trained during the chilliest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone and for nine years he has been an ordinary, upstanding citizen....until, that is, a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him The only other known survivor of that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him.
What ensues Is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the board that is the American landscape. Haunting, visceral, and utterly magnificent, Death Will Have Your Eyes is a novel about spying in the way that All the King's Men is a novel about politics - ultimately, its agents spy into that oddity known as the human condition.
First British Publication "Sallis investigates the cynical, violent, sophisticated world of modern espionage with authority and originality. His adult view of spies and their world has all the delicious, ambiguous atmosphere, the complexity of plot and character we expect from Graham Greene or John le Carre - and it goes like a bullet train. Sallis is a superb writer and this is his best novel yet!" - Michael Moorcock
"Speaking of James Sallis in the same tone as Poe and Dostoevski is not overblowing on my part. His early work indicates a mind and a talent of uncommon dimensions. He may well be one of the significant ones" - Harlan Ellison
"Better than James Lee Burke and Waiter Mosley." Crime Time
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The Long Legged Fly See Review by
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There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is Lew Griffin's job to find them. A prisoner of the bottle, his past and his skin, Griffin knows every hidden corner of Hell... and is on intimate terms with the demons who dwell there. But the disappearance of a militant woman activist is about to set Griffin on a roller coaster careering towards rock bottom - carrying the brilliant tormented black PI ever closer to a nightmare that threatens to hit him where he lives.... and more brutally than he has ever imagined possible. "James Sallis is doing some of the most interesting and provocative work in the field of private eye fiction. His New Orleans is richly atmospheric and darker than noir." Lawrence Block
"Speaking of Jim Sallis in the same tone as Poe and Dostoevski is not over blowing on my part. His early work indicates a mind and a talent of uncommon dimensions." Harlan Ellison
"An extraordinary first novel ...one of the years 10 best crime novels.... justly compared to James Lee Burke and Raymond Chandler that catches the steamy underbelly of New Orleans and the troubled soul of a good man in a bad land." L.A.Times
"Sallis creates a lyrical, unconventional suspense novel that reads like variations on a blues riff... a haunting debut" Publishers Weekly
"A walk on Louisiana's wild side" Kirkus
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Moth One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin's dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead - and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers...... leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a mystery.
Abandoning his former career for the safe respectability of teaching, Lew Griffin now spends his time in an old house in the garden district - determined to keep his distance from the lowlife temptations of the New Orleans night. But an inescapable obligation to an old friend is drawing the tormented black ex P.I. to danger like a moth to a flame. And there will be no turning back when his history comes calling and the dying begins again. "An outstanding novel. Sallis' writing hovers ,just at the edge of brilliance." Booklist
"A master.... Sallis is a fine talent... He belongs up there with Elmore Leonard, James Lee Burke and Tom Kakonis. His next novel can't appear soon enough" Buffalo News
'If you like Walter Mosley, then Sallis walks the same streets, but the walk is faster, the streets darker. Buy this book' Crime Time
Death Will Have Your Eyes
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Death Will Have Your Eyes