Dead Skip : A DKA File Novel

'Raw reality. A tough, taut writer. Saves a gut-punch for the climax.'— The Washington PostIn the first book of Joe Gores's razor-sharp Daniel Kearny Associates series, a DKA investigator clings to life after a devastating car crash. The police are ready to write it off as a drunk driving incident, but the DKA team knows it was an attempted homicide. Now they have seventy-two hours to search the backstreets of San Francisco and find the truth about the'accident'from a stripper, an embezzler, an ex-con, and other unsavory characters. Gores, a former detective and three-time Edgar Award–winner, spins a gritty, fast-moving tale that mystery lovers can't resist and compares with the best of Hammett and Chandler. This new edition of Dead Skip features a bonus DKA short story,'File #2: Stakeout on Page Street.''A traditional American crime novel, out of Black Mask, Hammett, and Chandler.... The Continental Op could do no more.... [Gores] has come up with a winner.'— The New York Times'[Gores is] one of the very few authentic private eyes to enter the field of fiction since Dashiell Hammett.'— Anthony Boucher'The hard, compelling smack of raw truth.'— Ellery Queen, on the DKA File series