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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE BOOK

The fourth part of James Sallis' sequence of novels featuring Lew Griffin

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which we are heir. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process.

Now 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 Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.

Somewhere in the underbelly of the Crescent City, there are answers and more questions; there are threats and the promise of salvation; and there is a dangerous descent into the alcoholic haze that marked Griffin's younger days as well as the possibility of rising from it, redeemed. Lew Griffin's investigation is the hero's journey, mythic and strengthening and thoroughly satisfying.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR EYE OF THE CRICKET

'I’m brought back, yet again, to my conviction that the best American writers are hiding out like CIA sleepers, long forgotten fugitives from a discontinued campaign.'
- Iain Sinclair, London Review of Books [read the full review]

'dazzling, poignant and totally satisfying'
- Publishers Weekly [read the full review]

'Classic American crime of the highest order'
- Time Out

'a writer with rich metaphor, wonderful vocabulary and heart'
- Andi Shechter, reviewingtheevidence.com [read the full review]

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR JAMES SALLIS

'James Sallis is a superb writer '
- The Times

'Sublime, soulful, and essential'
- Mike Stafford, Bookgeeks [read the full review]

'If Camus wrote pulp, he'd read like Sallis'
- Andrew Donaldson, Times South Africa [read the full review]

'Sallis is a fastidious man, intelligent and widely read'
- Iain Sinclair, London Review of Books

'Sallis is an unsung genius of crime writing'
- Mark Timlin, Independent on Sunday