Damnation Street
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Publisher Description
They are two sworn enemies with a single obsession: a woman on the run from them both. Scott Weiss is a private detective. John Foy is a professional killer known as the Shadowman. The woman is Julie Wyant, an ex-prostitute with a hidden past and an uncertain future. Julie spent one night with Foy - a night of psychopathic cruelty that Foy called love. Desperate to get away from him, she vanished without trace, but Foy wants her back and won't rest until he has her.
The only man who can find her is Weiss, a middle-aged private eye with a romantic soul and an empath's ability to read others. Before she disappeared Julie begged him not to come after her, fearing that he would bring the killer in his wake. But Weiss can't stay away, believing that the only way that Julie will ever escape is to force a final confrontation with the Shadowman. Matching each other move for move, Foy and Weiss pursue Julie from San Francisco, across the badlands of Arizona to Union City, Nevada, where finally they meet - on Damnation Street.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two-time Edgar winner Klavan again puts his own quirky spin on classic noir in his slam-bang third contemporary crime thriller to feature PIs Scott Weiss and Jim Bishop (after 2004's Shotgun Alley). Paunchy, moralistic Weiss, head of the Weiss Detective Agency in San Francisco, is still searching for bewitching prostitute Julie Wyant (aka Julie Angel), who's threatened by a relentless murderer the press has dubbed "the Shadowman." Weiss's nihilistic operative, Bishop, ignores all caution to help his boss. The terse, third-person narration occasionally switches to first person as Klavan, who claims to have worked for Weiss, inserts himself in the story, which he describes as a fictionalized memoir. While this authorial intrusion may interrupt the main action, it leads to some hilarious consequences. After drawing the reader in with a gripping plot and engrossing characters, Klavan produces a jolt at the end when he slyly reveals that... it's all fiction! 3-city author tour.
