Día de los Muertos

By Kent Harrington

Book Overview

If "American noir" were in the dictionary, you might find Kent Harrington's picture in place of the definition. His first thriller, Dark Ride, starts with a quote from the Prince of Darkness himself,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939767309
• ISBN13: 9780939767304
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Dennis McMillan Pubns
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Best ever

This is the best noir novel I have ever read, bar none, and that includes Cain and Goodis. It has been said that noir is "people you don't like doing things you don't care about," but not this one. You come to care intensely about Calhoun and his doomed one-day run against Bordertown Fate. But mainly, you find yourself very quickly in the hands of someone who can write, and nothing else really matters in the end. Cheers to Kent for writing it and Dennis McMillan for publishing it and shame on St. Martins for giving it a pass.

Surrealistic hard-boiled story from south of the border

Kent Harrington tells the story of Calhoun, a corrupt, renegade DEA agent who supplements his income by bringing illegals into the United States for a fee. Harrington deftly moves through Tiajuana's grimmest neighborhoods and paints a picture of a man -- deeply in debt to loan sharks and knee breakers -- whose badge offers no protection.The book is filled with violence, dished out as well as received, by Calhoun. In addition to his psychic problems, Calhoun is also plagued with a fever and there are several surrealistic sequences when the reader is confronted with scenes that leave one wondering if it's real, or part of Calhoun's physical illness.Despite his corruption, Calhoun is likable, sympathetic and has his own code -- albeit twisted backwards by life.

Classic noir - a must read!

The sin, corruption, evil, and dissipation of the seamy underbelly of a border town permeate the pages of Kent Harrington's latest novel. The taste, smell, and feel of humanity living on the edge of poverty, sexual frenzy, and perversion suck you into a world of noir so compelling it draws all light from a room. A case of hypnotic revolution for an existence foreign to most mesmerizes and intrigues, making it impossible to quit reading. Faster and faster we turn the pages, compelled by the need-to-know, but shocked by what we find. Soon to be a major motion picture and if Kent Harrington's suerte holds, DÍA de los MUERTOS will take its place among legendary film noir classics.Kathee S. Card

NOIR... right

If you like both your cup of java and your reading strong & black, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS is right for you. Bad puns aside, Harrington's latest hard boiled gem is even nastier than his noir debut, DARK RIDE. Don't be a nit-picker and buy 'em both. You'll thank me in the end.