A Country of Old Men
On sale
20th November 2014
Price: £5.99
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ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444784602
‘After forty years, Hammett has a worthy successor’ The Times
Dave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he was tough, determined, and ruthless when the case demanded it. Unlike them, he was gay.
Joseph Hansen’s groundbreaking novels follow Brandstetter as he investigates cases in which motives are murky, passions run high, and nothing is ever as simple as it looks. Set in 1970s and 80s California, the series is a fascinating portrait of a time and a place, with mysteries to match Chandler and Macdonald.
After twenty-one years as an investigator, Dave is finally planning to retire. But first he is drawn into one final case: a tale of kidnapping and murder told by an abandoned boy. With the police unconvinced by the child’s testimony, Dave must unravel a sordid story of drugs, jealousy and fraud before he can rest at last.
Dave Brandstetter stands alongside Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade and Lew Archer as one of the best fictional PIs in the business. Like them, he was tough, determined, and ruthless when the case demanded it. Unlike them, he was gay.
Joseph Hansen’s groundbreaking novels follow Brandstetter as he investigates cases in which motives are murky, passions run high, and nothing is ever as simple as it looks. Set in 1970s and 80s California, the series is a fascinating portrait of a time and a place, with mysteries to match Chandler and Macdonald.
After twenty-one years as an investigator, Dave is finally planning to retire. But first he is drawn into one final case: a tale of kidnapping and murder told by an abandoned boy. With the police unconvinced by the child’s testimony, Dave must unravel a sordid story of drugs, jealousy and fraud before he can rest at last.
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Reviews
Hansen, one of the best practitioners of the California private-eye school...writes crisply with a lean, spare prose that echoes Hammett, Chandler and Macdonald
Hansen is a strong unflinching writer and everything in his taut prose is real
An excellent craftsman, a compelling writer, he has a real gift for storytelling - for character, for scene, for pace independent of violence
The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today
In Brandstetter, Hansen has developed a sympathetic character of depth and integrity
No mystery writer is better at evoking the landscape, the light, the architecture and the ethnic diversity of Los Angeles
An exceptionally urbane literary style
Hansen writes about Southern California with the descriptive love once given it by Raymond Chandler
