James Sallis est un écrivain de romans policiers, poète et musicien américain dont l'œuvre explore les aspects plus sombres de la nature humaine et de la moralité. Son style distinctif se caractérise par une prose épurée, une atmosphère puissante et un impact profond obtenu par une narration concise. Sallis explore souvent les complexités de personnages imparfaits et leurs voyages à travers des paysages sombres, révélant ainsi des vérités profondes. Le rythme et l'ambiance de son écriture sont fréquemment influencés par son lien profond avec la musique jazz et blues.
Aujourd’hui, il se fait appeler David et commence a connaître un certain succes comme sculpteur. Autrefois, au temps de la guerre froide, sous un autre nom, il était l’un des meilleurs espions américains… Une nuit, il reçoit un coup de téléphone : l’un de ses anciens collegues aurait perdu les pédales, il doit le neutraliser. David quitte tout, sa petite amie, son identité, son atelier, et se met en chasse a travers les États-Unis…
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Focusing on themes of aging, relationships, loss, and love, this collection of poetry by James Sallis offers a slightly surrealistic and meditative perspective. The work evokes an elegiac tone, inviting readers to reflect deeply on the complexities of human experience.
The mystery of private investigator Lew Griffin is revealed in the conclusion of this critically acclaimed, groundbreaking series. In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Lew Griffin stands alone in a dark room, looking out. Behind him on the bed is a body. Instead of speaking, he reflects on his life—his failing relationship, his missing son, the fact that he hasn’t written in years—and how the two of them ended up there. In a novel as much about identity as about crime, the answers to Lew’s personal mysteries begin to become clear in the series’ brilliantly constructed climax.
Finding people is what former private investigator Lew Griffin excels at. The terrible irony is that the exception is his own missing son. Dreams, memories, and reality run together to form his own darkest night. Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans—a teacher, a writer, and an ex-detective. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son—and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and toting a copy of one of Lew’s novels. Learning the truth is a quest that will take Griffin into his own past as he tries to deal with the present: a search for three missing young men.
"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 most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the shooter? Somewhere in the Crescent City-and in the white supremacist movement crawling through it-there's an answer. But to get to it, he is going to have to work with the only people offering help, people he knows he should avoid"-- Provided by publisher
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 infant daughter. Griffin is determined to keep his distance from the dangers of the New Orleans night. But his inescapable obligation to an old friend keeps bringing him back like a moth to a flame.
A hired assassin searching for a rival killer, a burned-out detective with a terminally ill wife and an abandoned youth surviving by his wits follow inextricably linked paths toward community acceptance in the unforgiving sunlight and sprawl of Phoenix. 20,000 first printing.
Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when...
A year or so has passed since the events of Cypress Grove. Ex-policeman, ex- con, former therapist, Turner has become Deputy Sheriff in the small town within driving distance of Memphis, Tennessee, to which he had migrated in hopes of escaping his past. His life is mending as he and Val Bjorn grow closer. And then a young man, arrested on a routine traffic stop with more than $200,000 in his trunk, is forcibly sprung from jail after Sheriff Don Lee is brutally assaulted. Throwing caution aside, Turner goes in pursuit to Memphis, unleashing ghosts he thought he had left behind, and endangering all that matters to him now.