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Gun, with Occasional Music is a 1994 novel by American writer Jonathan Lethem that blends science fiction and hardboiled detective …
The Looking Glass War is a 1965 spy novel by John le Carré. Written in …
None of the coolness or suaveness of the other Smiley books, dripping with borderline hatred. Some of Le Carré’s best writing appears between scenes as he weaves a tapestry of hubris, ineptitude and utter failure.
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered …
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News is a 2021 autobiographical account of open …
It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of …
March Violets is a historical detective novel and the first written by Philip Kerr featuring …
Alternatingly syrupy noir and coldly brutal thriller. Starts off boozy and quippy, out Hammetting Hammett at points, but the fun definitively stops in the last third. The tonal shift doesn’t feel out of place but it recontextualises the first half quite well within the evils and nihilism of fascism.
One major difference to almost all hard boiled novels is that the city itself is not a character as in other authors’ work (Chandler and Hammett particularly) - it is an enemy. The city is riven with betrayal and nothing is genuine.
Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has few illusions about the world--at least not about the world …
For a book in a genre that relies on convention and pastiche, this is an incredibly fresh and, most strikingly, lean work.
