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ISBN: 1874061637
Price: £5.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 160pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: March 1997

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE BOOK

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In a time of anger, activism, and bitter racial tensions, a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer - by tearing up innocent people like paper targets. The shooter's sixth fatality is cut down while she is walking at Lew Griffin's side. the victim was white. Griffin ius black - a reluctant young p.i. whose poet's heart has already ben hardened by amoral injustice and heavy drink. And though he had only just met his unfortunate companion, Griffin knows it's up to him to find her killer - before a madman puts the final match to a volatile urban tinderbox.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'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. Black Hornet is terrific.'
- Lawrence Block

'Sallis wants to harmonise detective fiction and 'literature' and succeeds so well that, like Walter Mosley, we scarcely even notice.'
- Gerald Houghton, The Edge Magazine [read the full review]

'Haunting... Black Hornet is fast-moving, elliptical, and like a jazz trumpet solo, has a plaintive note of melancholy woven through it.'
- Washington Post Book World