Лучшие книги Джеймса Саллиса

Шедевр современного неонуара, завораживающая и жестокая история искателя острых ощущений, днем трудящегося каскадером в Голливуде, а по ночам подрабатывающего водителем у бандитов. История одинокого волка, живущего по старому доброму принципу "Какое мне дело до вас, а вам - до меня", его случайных партнеров по "бизнесу" и роковой женщины, которой может довериться лишь сумасшедший. В 2011 году Николас Виндинг Рёфн ("Пушер", "Бронсон", "Страх Икс", "Валгалла: Сага о викинге") перенес эту историю на экран, в картине снимались Райан Гослинг, Кэри Маллиган, Кристина Хендрикс, Рон Перлман. Перевод публикуется в радикально новой редакции.

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Однажды в городке появилась огромная стая крыс и начала жрать все живое...
Но началось все с того, что папаша тупой девицы Бетти Сью Карстейрс, самый богатый человек в городке, невзлюбил Коротышку Бергена, который был влюблен в его дочь. Да так влюблен, что остановить его смог лишь суд Линча.

Любящие родители всегда прощают своих детей за мелкие шалости. Например, если дети не очень хорошо обходятся с прислугой. А ещё, родители всегда должны удовлетворять детское любопытство...

Sarah Jane Pullman is a good cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the mysterious disappearance of the sheriff whose shoes she's filling--and the even more mysterious realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest friends.

In the tradition of James Crumley's The Last Good Kiss and Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley, this kaleidoscopic character study sparkles in every dark and bright detail--a virtuoso work by a master of both the noir and the tender aspects of human nature.

A hired killer on his final job, a burned-out detective whose wife is dying slowly and in agony, a young boy abandoned by his parents and living alone by his wits. Three people, solitary and sundered from society.
In what is at one and the same time a coming-of-age novel, a realistic crime novel and a novel of the contemporary Southwest, The Killer Is Dying is above all the story of three men of vastly different age and background, and of the shape their lives take against the unforgiving sunlight and sprawl of America's fifth largest city, Phoenix.
The detective, Sayles, is looking for the killer, Christian, though he doesn't know that. Christian is trying to find the man who stepped in and took down his target before he had the chance. And the boy, Jimmie, is having the killer's dreams. While they never meet, through the course of the novel, all find community.

A sniper appears in 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. Five people have been fatally shot. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. He's black and she's white, and though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make some sense of it. His unlikely allies include a crusading black journalist, a longtime supplier of mercenary arms and troops, and bail bondsman Frankie DeNoux. Yet it is the character of Lew Griffin that takes center stage, as in each of Sallis's highly praised books. He is by now, well on the way to becoming what he will be; violent, kind, contradictory, alcoholic. Both naïve and wise, he is a man cursed by unspeakable demons. Nonetheless, he is seemingly encircled by redemptive angels, awaiting an opening.

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. 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 displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.