Joy wrote:
> John Shannon's first three in his Jack Liffey series
verge on the
> apocalyptic: Concrete River, Cracked Earth, Poison
Sky. And they're
> PIs,
> too.
Actually, John's been preaching the end of the world (or at
least LA) for so long -- and so well -- I'm pretty sure his
continuing cold shoulder from mysterydom is probably just
another sign of the apocalypse.
I've said it before and I'll say it again -- there is nobody
out there right now writing a better, smarter, more
provocative and challenging LA crime series than Shannon.
Mosley, Crais, Connolly are all great, but they don't dig and
scratch and root under the skin of the City of Angels like
Shannon does.
And he doesn't always clean under his fingernails first.
There's a bleakness, an uncertainty and uneasiness, a moral
dirtiness in them that always seems on the verge of going
over the edge. His P.I., Jack Liffey, wants to be a moral
man, a good man, an ethical man, but he knows it may be too
late. Not just for him, but all of us. And yet he keeps
going...
Shannon has a new one coming out soon, THE DEVILS OF
BAKERSFIELD. Maybe this one'll do the trick.
Kevin Burton Smith www.thrillingdetective.com 1998-2008: 10
Years of Thrills
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