Shadow Games

By Ed Gorman

Book Overview

From the author of "Trouble Man" and "Ride Into Yesterday" comes the story of a former celebrity who tries to overcome his past mistakes and stage a comeback. What he gets instead is a trip more... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881475115
• ISBN13: 9781881475118
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Cemetary Dance Publications
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Hardboiled PI Action in Chicago

The PI hero in this book is cut from Raymond Chandler cloth. He is the PI Knight Errant. The story opens in 1985 when the number one teen idol is found with an underaged girl in a very compromising situation. This is the last of a series of alcohol fueled missteps resulting in his incarceration in a mental hospital. Eventually, he is released and five years later it seems that he is finally getting his life back on track when he becomes the suspect in a grisly murder investigation.The murderer isn't hard to figure if you pay attention while reading. The clue is there. But the real strenght of this book is the way it grabs you by the hair of the head and drags you through the amoral world of stars and starsuckers. The action never flags.

Shadow Games is bright and funny!

You'd never think that Gorman would come across as having a cutting edge sense of humor, judging from his previous works. This novel is pure Joe Lansdale and Richard Christian Matheson (i.e., Created By) rolled together. It contains gripping violence yet has hilarious observations and one very funny scene in it. I enjoyed it immensely. Too bad his other works, though good, don't have as much leavening to them as well.