Description
Dorothy B. Hughes's brilliantly constructed, psychologically devastating noir masterpiece—following an unemployed veteran through postwar Los Angeles in a narrative that places the reader inside the mind of a deeply disturbing protagonist with a subtlety and a formal intelligence that were unprecedented in 1947 and remain remarkable today—is one of the finest and most important crime novels ever written. Written with a prose style of extraordinary control and the genuine moral courage to follow her premise wherever it leads, this is essential reading for every student of American noir and every reader ready to encounter crime fiction at its most literarily serious. A masterwork.
