{"product_id":"black-hornet-9781842437049","title":"Black Hornet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe third part of James Sallis' sequence of novels featuring Lew Griffin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a time of anger, activism, and bitter racial tensions, a sniper has appeared to heat up an already sweltering New Orleans summer - by tearing up innocent people like paper targets. The shooter's sixth fatality is cut down while she is walking at Lew Griffin's side. The victim was white, Griffin is black - a reluctant young p.i. whose poet's heart has already been hardened by amoral injustice and heavy drink. And though he had only just met his unfortunate companion, Griffin knows it's up to him to find her killer - before a madman puts the final match to a volatile urban tinderbox.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Sallis is doing some of the most interesting and provocative work in the field of private eye fiction. His New Orleans is richly atmospheric and darker than noir. Black Hornet is terrific -- Lawrence Block\u003cbr\u003eWry... Powerful... A rich tapestry of social unrest and vividly evoked characters and settings... What Chester Himes did for Harlem... and Walter Mosley is now doing for Los Angeles, James Sallis is doing for New Orleans * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eHaunting... Black Hornet is fast-moving, elliptical, and like a jazz trumpet solo, has a plaintive note of melancholy woven through it * Washington Post Book World *\u003cbr\u003eSallis wants to harmonise detective fiction and 'literature' and succeeds so well that, like Walter Mosley, we scarcely even notice -- Gerald Houghton * The Edge Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA thoughtful, existential tale told in evocative prose -- Rob Kitchin * The View from the Blue House *","brand":"Bedford Square Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470226624855,"sku":"9781842437049","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781842437049.jpg?v=1744897734","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/black-hornet-9781842437049","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}