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“San Francisco: where you went when no one was talking to you anymore.” So illustrates the ostracized tone of Telegraph Hill, the new neo crime noir penned by real-life private eye John Nardizzi that is just as much about finding as it is being lost. Sculpted after the PI pulp of days past, Nardizzi covers a tried and true page-turning formula: disenchanted detective tracking down an elusive prostitute who witnessed a gang shooting before blood-thirsty Chinese triads get to her first. The story encompasses all the classic requisites of an urban thriller - narrow escapes, sexy femme fatales, investigative interludes and violent crescendos - but is refreshingly countered with cheek towards clichéd noir symbols (“He wondered why steam still drifted from manholes in the 21st century”). The author squeezes in, at times a bit forced, nearly every Bay Area landmark, but might have done better with a retro ‘70s setting, as today’s triad syndicates, mostly operating through legitimate multinational corporations, are not nearly as prevalent nor trigger-happy as portrayed. Where this novel stands apart, then, is the lyrical prose and intimate observations of lesser-known S.F. neighborhoods and their respective counter-cultures (The Tenderloin “where trannys look better than the real women”). Chinese cultural references and scenes in Hong Kong appealed to this San Francisco City native living as an expatriate in China, as did the subtle themes of displacement, from the cast-out protagonist to the astray prostitute (“She realized there was no one here for her anymore”). ###
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