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Reminiscent of American Hustle, Straight to the Head is a wild-eyed crime novel full of sex, drugs, and scams, set against the backdrop of the new wild west, Vancouver in 1983: LA’s ne’er-do-well cousin on the eve of transforming itself from a filthy little town to an antiseptic big city.
The disappearance of an Eastern European immigrant named Irina, who may have absconded with a shipment of drugs and $300,000 belonging to dirty cops, brings together a cast of characters who are not who they seem: Ted, her estranged husband; Dorothy, her landlord whose side business is shoplifting designer clothing to sell on the black market; Johnstone and Hickey, the corrupt police officers; and Renaud, the American bounty hunter who shows up in town to right his drug bosses’ wrongs.
Straight to the Head is both a crime novel and a send-up of one: self-referential and humorous, yet working within the confines of the traditional crime novel structure. It is also an accurate depiction of west coast life in 1983: New Wave art galleries, trendy sushi restaurants, and hot drug-fueled nights on the beach.
Fraser Nixon’s first novel The Man Who Killed was an Amazon. ca First Novel Award finalist.
© 2016 Arsenal Pulp Press (E-bok): 9781551526379
Utgivningsdatum
E-bok: 16 maj 2016
Deckare
Reminiscent of American Hustle, Straight to the Head is a wild-eyed crime novel full of sex, drugs, and scams, set against the backdrop of the new wild west, Vancouver in 1983: LA’s ne’er-do-well cousin on the eve of transforming itself from a filthy little town to an antiseptic big city.
The disappearance of an Eastern European immigrant named Irina, who may have absconded with a shipment of drugs and $300,000 belonging to dirty cops, brings together a cast of characters who are not who they seem: Ted, her estranged husband; Dorothy, her landlord whose side business is shoplifting designer clothing to sell on the black market; Johnstone and Hickey, the corrupt police officers; and Renaud, the American bounty hunter who shows up in town to right his drug bosses’ wrongs.
Straight to the Head is both a crime novel and a send-up of one: self-referential and humorous, yet working within the confines of the traditional crime novel structure. It is also an accurate depiction of west coast life in 1983: New Wave art galleries, trendy sushi restaurants, and hot drug-fueled nights on the beach.
Fraser Nixon’s first novel The Man Who Killed was an Amazon. ca First Novel Award finalist.
© 2016 Arsenal Pulp Press (E-bok): 9781551526379
Utgivningsdatum
E-bok: 16 maj 2016
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