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ISBN: 1874061521
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Price: £4.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 192pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada, Australia & New Zealand
Pub. Date: July 1996

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

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.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

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