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

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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James Sallis is a renowned poet, critic, essayist, editor, translator, musicologist, biographer and novelist. He lives in Arizona with his wife Karyn.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

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 writes crime novels that read like literature. - Judith Freeman, Los Angeles Times