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Books by James Sallis
  | | Eye of the Cricket(Reprint) (A Lew Griffin Novel) by James Sallis Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2019 by Soho Crime ISBN-13: 978-1-64129-149-1, ISBN: 1-64129-149-4 "Finding people: this is what Lew Griffin excels at as a retired private investigator. The tragic irony is that he can't find his own missing son. Dreams, memories and reality become intertwined as Griffin is asked again to find the missing.Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son—and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared ..." |
 | | Bluebottle(Reprint) (A Lew Griffin Novel) by James Sallis Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2019 by Soho Crime ISBN-13: 978-1-64129-151-4, ISBN: 1-64129-151-6 "Weaving Griffin's search for identity-one of the recurring themes in this magnificent series of novels-with a sensuous portrait of the people and places the define New Orleans, James Sallis continues not only to unravel Griffin's past but to map his future . . . and our own.As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, he discovers that ..." |
 | | Moth(Reprint) (A Lew Griffin Novel) by James Sallis Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Soho Crime ISBN-13: 978-1-64129-145-3, ISBN: 1-64129-145-1 "Lew Griffin, now fifty years old, has abandoned his former career as a New Orleans private investigator for the safety of teaching. But his old life draws him back. One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin’s dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, LaVerne Adams, is dead—and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers, leaving behind a critically fragile premature infa ..." |
 | | A Lew Griffin Novel Ser.(Reprint) Ghost of a Flea by James Sallis Paperback, Published 2019 by Soho Crime ISBN-13: 978-1-64129-153-8, ISBN: 1-64129-153-2 |
 | | Drive(1st Edition) by James Sallis, Poisoned Pen Press Paperback, 158 Pages, Published 2006 by Mariner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-15-603032-8, ISBN: 0-15-603032-2 "Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there’d be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn’s late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the intersta ..." |
 | | Renderings(1st Edition) by James Sallis Paperback, 107 Pages, Published 1995 by Black Heron Press ISBN-13: 978-0-930773-32-8, ISBN: 0-930773-32-2 "A man travels alone to an island. There he reflects on his life as an artist- a writer- and on the women he has loved. Soon the reader realizes that this man is on the edge of sanity, and his review of his life is his attempt to retain what he can of sanity and meaning. Renderings is a novel written so tightly that no air escapes and no impurity seeps in. Harlan Ellison says of the author: "It is quite possible that speaking of Jim Sall ..." |
 | | Physical Activity and Behavioral Medicine(1st Edition) (Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology) by James F. Sallis, Dr. Neville G. Owen, Edward Sallis Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1998 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-5997-2, ISBN: 0-8039-5997-4 |
 | | Death Will Have Your Eyes(Reprint) A Novel about Spies by James Sallis Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2014 by Mulholland Books ISBN-13: 978-0-316-40324-5, ISBN: 0-316-40324-5 "Mulholland Books takes pleasure in restoring to print an acclaimed novel of espionage and suspense by the author of Drive.David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. For almost a decade he has been out of the game, working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. David ..." |
 | | Driven(1st Edition) The sequel to Drive by James Sallis Paperback, 147 Pages, Published 2012 by Poisoned Pen Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4642-0011-3, ISBN: 1-4642-0011-4 "Praise for Drive..."The perfect piece of noir fiction." -Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "More thought, feeling and murderous energy than books twice its length" -Chicago Tribune At the end of Drive, Driver has killed Bernie Rose, "the only one he ever mourned," ending his campaign against those who double-crossed him. Driven tells how that young man, done with killing, becomes the one who goes down "at 3 a.m. on a clear, c ..." |
 | | Sarah Jane by James Sallis Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2019 by Soho Crime ISBN-13: 978-1-64129-080-7, ISBN: 1-64129-080-3 "A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of DriveSarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and ..." |
 | | Drive by James Sallis Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Oldcastle Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84243-500-7, ISBN: 1-84243-500-0 "'Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate ..." |
 | | Salt River. by James Sallis Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2008 by No Exit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84243-277-8, ISBN: 1-84243-277-X |
 | | Cripple Creek(Reprint) A Novel (John Turner Series) by James Sallis Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2007 by Walker Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8027-1520-3, ISBN: 0-8027-1520-6 "In "Cypress Grove", James Sallis introduced his compelling new protagonist - Turner. Susannah Yager of "The Telegraph" said: "Sallis's deceptively easy style disguises the skill with which he has produced a satisfyingly complete portrait of a man's life" - Now Turner is back in Cripple Creek, a novel as atmospheric and eventful as anything Sallis has written. A year or so has passed since the events of Cypress Grove. Ex-policeman, ex-co ..." |
 | | Black Hornet(Reprint) (Lew Griffin Mysteries) by James Sallis Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2003 by Walker & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-8027-7643-3, ISBN: 0-8027-7643-4 "A sniper appears in 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. Five people have been fatally shot. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. He's black and she's white, and though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make some sense of it. His unlikely allies include a crusading black journalist, a longtime supplier of m ..." |
 | | Gently into the Land of the Meateaters (Hardback) by James Sallis Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Black Heron Press ISBN-13: 978-0-930773-58-8, ISBN: 0-930773-58-6 "Like Baudelaire's vampire, whose bones after the metamorphosis go on creaking like a signboard in the wind. Or, again, as in Apollinaire: Their hearts are ..." |
 | | The Black Hornet(Updated) by James Sallis Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 1997 by Oldcastle ISBN-13: 978-1-874061-63-2, ISBN: 1-874061-63-7 "Book by Sallis, James" |
 | | Sarah Jane (Paperback) by James Sallis Paperback, Published 2020 by Soho Press, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-64129-210-8, ISBN: 1-64129-210-5 "A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive. Sarah Jane Pullman is a cop with a complicated past." |
 | | Willnot by James Sallis Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2016 by No Exit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84344-669-9, ISBN: 1-84344-669-3 "A brilliant new protagonist and his memorable community are introduced in the latest masterpiece by acclaimed novelist James Sallis. In his celebrated career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them thoughtful observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the black New Orleans private investigator; retired detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive. Dr. Lamar Hale will ..." |
 | | Ghost of a Flea by James Sallis 200 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-63286-411-6, ISBN: 1-63286-411-8 "Things like that made you consider how essentially pagan New Orleans could be . Citizens here still keep track of solstices, favor ... arbitrary or tentative moves.” “ Then I'm sorry, Lewis.” I was about to say more when Don stepped through the doorway, glanced around, and walked towards us, followed in short order by Rick Garces. ... José has a Cuban coffee working, sandwich soaking up grease on the grill, before I'm through the doo ..." |
 | | s of My Kind by James Sallis Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by No Exit Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84344-114-4, ISBN: 1-84344-114-4 "At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor's bed. Eventually she escaped and, after living for eighteen months on cast-offs at the local mall, was put into the child-care system. Suing for emancipation, at age sixteen she became a legal adult. Nowadays she works as a production editor for the local public TV station, and is one of the world's good people.One evening she returns home to find ..." |
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