Synopses & Reviews
Page Murdock doesnt know why someone sent hired killers after him, but he knows where theyre coming from.
With an unwilling backup man, Murdock takes up temporary residence among the whores, gamblers, dope addicts, and cutthroats of the continents foulest district—San Franciscos Barbary Coast. No man here is trustworthy. The enemies hes really worried about, though, are the men who run things, the politicians.
Murdocks quest takes him into Chinatown, into opium dens, and into league with a man of an alien culture who controls vices that make respectable people quail.
Loren D. Estlemans latest tale of Page Murdock delivers excitement and satisfaction as only Estleman can.
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“Louis LAmour looks down with envy.”—
Kirkus Reviews on
Port Hazard “What we have here is a true professional, a writer of a sort increasingly rare . . . telling stories of Americas open spaces and choked cities and of people forever in between, a craftsman so given to his work as to spontaneously combust to genius.”—The Boston Globe on Loren D. Estleman
About the Author
Loren D. Estleman was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BA degree in English Literature and Journalism in 1974. In 2002, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters for his contribution to American literature.
He is the author of more than fifty novels in the categories of mystery, historical western, and mainstream, and has received five Western Writers of American Golden Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, and three Shamus Awards. He has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Britain's Silver Dagger, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2003, the mammoth Encyclopedia of Detective Fiction named him the most critically acclaimed writer of U.S. detective