Deadman
Published on 8. August 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-84195-366-3 (ISBN)
Description
Fang Mulheisen, Detroit police detective extraordinaire, is back - this time on a mission to the high, dusty plains of Montana, where Helen Sedlacek seems to have surfaced. Readers of Jackson's Hit on the House (Canongate Crime) will recall that Helen, daughter of the late, hardly lamented, Mafia don 'Big' Sid Sedlacek, exacted vengeance for her father's murder by chopping down the leader of the Detroit mob with a 12-gauge and then disappeared with a truckload of stolen cash. Now, months later, a man fitting the description of Joe Service - Helen's lover and Mulheisen's long-time underworld nemesis - arrives in a Montana hospital in a coma, having been shot in the face at close range. Then Mario Soper, a mob hit man with an open contract on Joe, turns up dead in an up-country irrigation ditch. Where is Helen? Who whacked Mario? Did Mario shoot Joe? Where is all the money? These are the questions Mulheisen asks himself as he flies to Montana to investigate
Reviews / Votes
Funny, hard-boiled and original. Do yourself a favour: add it to your list. * * Literary Review * * Powerfully evocative of the American wilderness, honest about small town life, Jackson expertly handles intertwined fast narratives. Long and satisfying, unlike most macho boasts. * * The Independent * * How long can Jon A Jackson remain the best-kept secret of hard-boiled crime fiction connoisseurs? * * The New York Times * * Mention of Jon A Jackson in the same sentence as the late Charles Willeford is deserved. Willeford still knocks most writers into a cocked hat (Leonard, Hiassen, you name them) and Jackson shares Willeford's ability to trust the tale and relish its telling with the aid of some properly mordant humour...Hit On The House runs on an effortless but fiendish ingenuity * * The Guardian * *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84195-366-3 (9781841953663)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jon A. Jackson grew up in northern Michigan and now lives in the Montana Rockies. He is a devoted jazz fan, an avid angler and a carpenter. His Mulheisen novels have been translated into half a dozen European languages.