Red harvest

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Dashiell Hammett: Red harvest (1983, J. Curley)

319 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1983 by J. Curley.

OCLC Number:
9324834

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4 stars (34 reviews)

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.

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Pitch Noir

3 stars

I had asked for a recommendation of a novel about labour so this wasn't really what I expected. I had wanted to read a Dashiell Hammett novel and this is a probably the only hard boiled crime novel I will read. It was true to form and as hard bitten as I expected. I was surprised at some of criminal behaviour of the "good guy" protagonist, I hadn't understood that element of the genre.

Review of 'Red Harvest' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

When I read this book I kept thinking this book reminds me of the Bruce Willis movie Last Man Standing. Then I find out that movie was a remake of a Japanese movie called Yojimbo, which is based on Res Harvest. Have no fear though, this book is heaps better than that plotless movie. This book is full of gritty and complex side plots, red herrings, greed and corruption.

The unnamed main character is brought into Poisonville to clean up the town from all the gangsters and corruption. Pinning one against the other the protagonist begins to enjoy this a little too much. The gangsters been played against each other can only result in one thing; a blood bath; a red harvest.

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  • Continental Op (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Private investigators -- United States -- Fiction
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