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(3.5) | 2 | From authors including National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, Deadly Ink 2007 winner Darrell James, and renowned social commentator turned short-story writer Mike Davis, Politics Noir is a chilling and subversive collection of new crime stories featuring greed, corruption, insatiable ambition--and murder in the very highest places.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 2 mentions » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Phillips, Gary | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Black Artemis | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Bruen, Ken | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Davis, Mike | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Greer, Robert | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hautman, Pete | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | James, Darrell | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lamar, Jake | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Martinez, Michele | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Massey, Sujata | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Phelan, Twist | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Phillips, Gary | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Shannon, John | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wishnia, k.j.a. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions From authors including National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, Deadly Ink 2007 winner Darrell James, and renowned social commentator turned short-story writer Mike Davis, Politics Noir is a chilling and subversive collection of new crime stories featuring greed, corruption, insatiable ambition--and murder in the very highest places. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contains: - Negative Nixons / Mike Davis
- The legend of Bayboy and the Mexican surfer / John Shannon
- Pork / Pete Hautman
- Strange bedfellows / Twist Phelan
- The art of avarice / Darrell James
- Ambition / Michele Martinez
- Madame Secretary's lover man / Jake Lamar
- Collateral damage / Robert Greer
- Slingin' / Black Artemis
- Dissed / k.j.a. Wishnia
- Dead right / Ken Bruen
- The Mayor's movie / Sujata Massey
- Swift boats for Jesus / Gary Phillips
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By and large, the stories in “Politics Noir,” in addition to simply chronicling corruption and vice, do so in a traditional ‘noir’ style, reminiscent of early 20th century crime fiction. Like so much pulp literature, there was a good deal of sex, violence, and foul language of which readers should be aware before picking this book up. Overall, I think those that will be most interested in this book are those who are fans of noir literature and those who are very interested in, but cynical about, politics.
For the full review:
http://devourerofbooks.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/politics-noir-book-review/ ( )