The Cold Handshake - Couverture souple

Bain, Alan

 
9781511497671: The Cold Handshake

Synopsis

The Cold Handshake by Alan Bain.A noirish tale recalling the paperback Era.Pacific City, 1952.Crooked. Dirty. Contemptible. Dangerous.That's Largo. That's Pacific City.A grifter in the most remote, the most sleazy city in the world. Largo's life changed forever when he met the girl of his dreams: Rita Fleischer.This was a dame to take things real smooth with. A dame to live for. Now he could forget the scams, the mob bosses and the dirty money.Or he should've.Then Rita was murdered.She became a phantom, a ghost. Rita haunted Largo.And she'd haunt him all the way to the electric chair. . .Reader's caution: This story contains adult themes and frequent language that may cause offence.

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À propos de l?auteur

Alan Bain is a first time novelist without any special intuition or super-powers. He lives mostly in his own head – sometimes in others’ – and usually for a lifetime. Alan enjoys the Paperback Era and Penny Dreadfuls and confesses to a desire to see them resurrected like some washed up alcoholic PI in a Vampyr laundrette. Alan’s influences are Chandler, Ellroy, Brewer, Palahnuik, Doyle, Poe and Miller. Alan Bain is a Scot living in Scotland. Find out more at: www.clarty-noir.com

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