The midnight promise : a detective's story in ten cases /

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Author / Creator:Lovitt, Zane.
Imprint:New York : Europa Editions, c2012.
Description:320 p. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:World noir
World noir.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9276568
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ISBN:9781609451332 (pbk.)
1609451333 (pbk.)
Summary:The story of detective John Dorn told in ten cases. The "cases" are as different as can be, but each one reveals a little more of Dorn's own troubled past and his dire present, leading to a final confrontation with his arch nemesis: himself.
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One PI. Ten crimes. "Stylistically reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill . An exciting and original debut" ( The Hoopla Literary Society ).

A literary detective story ingeniously told in ten cases. John Dorn is a classic gumshoe. His woman has left him, he lives in his office, and he drinks too much. His one friend, a lawyer named Demetri, hands Dorn an infinite supply of hopeless cases and lost causes, to which Dorn, ever the champion of the underdog and the oppressed, is drawn to "as a sledgehammer is to a kneecap." A superlative work of hardboiled literary detective fiction, The Midnight Promise wonderfully evokes the underbelly of contemporary Melbourne, its battlers, its hard men, its victims, and its ill-fated heroes.

"[A] powerful hard-boiled debut . . . The cases get progressively more disturbing, both in terms of their subject matter, which include gruesome torture, and their impact on Dorn, a classic world-weary narrator."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Lovitt has a neat way with a yarn. . . . And just when you think he is going to stay close to a kind of downbeat realism, there is a slide into something a little thrillerish and action-packed."-- The Sydney Morning Herald

"[An] artful, Down Under nod to the hard-boiled private eyes of Chandler and Hammett."-- The Christian Science Monitor , "10 Excellent International Thrillers"

"Lovitt is sure-handed in sketching characters, and he laces Dorn's cases with sardonic humor and prodigious bits of human frailty. . . . Fans of international crime fiction will enjoy Dorn and his milieu."-- Booklist

Physical Description:320 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9781609451332
1609451333