Green Sun

Reviews / Votes

Fearsomely authentic and moving, it paints a scary portrait of an officer's life * Daily Mail * You might sign up for the promise of thrills but you'll leave utterly sated by the very human magic of the finest crime writer alive. * Metro * Kent Anderson serves up the best of what crime fiction can do in Green Sun, showing us a slice of the world that stands for the whole wide world, and giving us Officer Hanson, whose perseverance and bedrock fairness and understanding of human frailty make him a hero for all places and times. The Hanson Trilogy should not be a secret. It's the best of the best in American storytelling today. -- Michael Connelly Anderson was, like his maverick hero, a Vietnam vet, an Oakland cop and an English lecturer - experiences that give this fiction the compelling authenticity other writers strive for. * Sunday Times Crime Club * This is only Kent Anderson's third novel in 30-odd years but it's worth the wait...There's a wealth of hard-won knowledge, if not much conventional plot, in this brilliant, subtle, finally optimistic, cop novel. * Mail on Sunday * Green Sun tells the unvarnished truth about what it is to be a cop in modern day America. I can give a suspense novel no higher compliment -- James Patterson Anderson is adept at finding a terrible kind of beauty in the worst circumstances, which makes Green Sun difficult to put down even when it's emotionally painful to keep reading. * NPR * Kent Anderson is one of the unsung legends of crime fiction * Chicago Tribune * Deeply moving...couldn't be more timely * Publishers Weekly, starred review * Kent Anderson immediately pulls you into his taut, authentic depiction of a cop's life in early-80s Oakland. Green Sun is crime fiction at its best: smart, unflinching, and, ultimately, compassionate. -- Alafair Burke Kent Anderson has crafted a literary miracle here. We're transported to 'Nam and circa-'80 Oakland, reimagined as Hell, seen through the eyes of a crusading cop unique in the annals of police literature. This jazzy - and jazz influenced - novel is like the best of early Joseph Wambaugh. -- James Ellroy, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Perfidia</i> The best cop novel I have ever read. There's never been anything like it. -- James Crumley, author of <i>The Last Good Kiss</i> Anderson doesn't publish much, but when he does, it's something to remember...It is perhaps the perfect time for an honest, realistic, unflinching portrayal of a good cop, and Anderson delivers just that. * Booklist (Starred) * Kent Anderson is the finest portrayer of the cop novel, elevating the genre to the highest literary form. With Green Sun, he completes a trilogy that would sit effortlessly alongside the masters, Cormac McCarthy and James Lee Burke. This is Ellroy for a whole new generation. -- Ken Bruen