Synopses & Reviews
PRAISE FOR SHOTGUN ALLEY
"Andrew Klavan is doing something that is rarely done . . . a unique angle on the private-eye novel. I liked Dynamite Road. I liked Shotgun Alley even better."Michael Connelly
"Shotgun Alley is smart, tough, and fun. The writing is robust and spot-on, and the story is a collision of powerful characters you just cant take your eyes off. Splendid entertainment."T. Jefferson Parker
"Klavan takes hold of the darkest side of dark, mounts it on a Harley, then revs it up and sends it straight to hell."Allan Folsom
PRAISE FOR DYNAMITE ROAD
"A dynamite read about small-town corruption, drug running, and a genuinely terrifying serial killer." San Diego Union Tribune
"Klavan winds his tale tighter and tighter until the reader is hopelessly spellbound. Superb suspense by a master storyteller."Clive Cussler
"A fast-paced, entertaining thrill-ride of a book. Klavan does tough-guy heroes and sexual tension better than anyone writing today."Janet Evanovich
Review
"Klavan's got talent to burn....Damnation Street has it all: great characters, inventive plotting...all fused into a relentless tale of suspense that will have readers in agony to know how the final shot is fired." Booklist (Starred Review)
Review
"Klavan's tenth is a violent, sentimental comic book without the drawings." Kirkus Reviews
Review
"The word sleazy shows up several times in Andrew Klavan's Damnation Street, and it certainly has the right address....Klavan's confidently wry style keeps things punched up throughout, not least in his fight sequences, which are deliberately as ludicrous as they are violent....If having this much fun with a tale of assassination and romantic melancholy is wrong, who wants to be right?" Jon Zobenica, The Atlantic Monthly (read the entire Atlantic Monthly review)
Synopsis
They are two sworn enemies with a single obsession: a woman on the run from them both.
Scott Weiss is a private detective. John Foy is a professional killer. The woman is Julie Wyant, a hooker with the face of an angel.
Julie spent one night with Foy a night of psychopathic cruelty that Foy called love. Desperate to get away from him, she vanished without a trace. And Foy wants her back.
There's only one man who can find her: Weiss, the best locate operative in the business. She's begged him not to look for her, fearing he'll bring the killer in his wake. But Weiss can't stay away.
Now, from a town called Paradise, through a wilderness that feels like hell, Weiss searches for Julie and the killer follows, waiting for his chance.
They are two expert hunters matching move for move until it ends on Damnation Street.
Synopsis
An Otto Penzler Book John Shannon is a petty thief on the run. A three-time loser framed for murder, he knows that hes facing life in prisonor death by lethal injection. Then, a bizarre text message draws him to a meeting in the dark of night. A foreigner who calls himself the Identity Man offers Shannon an incredible chance to start again: a new face, a new home, a new beginning.
In a ruined city trying to rebuild, he gets work as a carpenter, and falls in love. It seems too good to be trueand it is. It turns out this city is crawling with crooked politicians, gangsters, and dirty copsall of whom seem to want Shannon dead.
Moving through the burnt-out shambles of a town, hes got to ferret out the secret of his new lifeand fastif he wants to be left with any life at all.
About the Author
ANDREW KLAVAN is the author of the best-selling novels True Crime, filmed by Clint Eastwood, and Dont Say a Word, a film starring Michael Douglas. His work has been nominated for the Edgar Award five times and has won twice. He is a contributing editor at City Journal and his articles have appeared, among other places, in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Southern California with his wife Ellen. They have a daughter, Faith, and a son, Spencer.