Contract Null & Void

By Joe Gores

Book Overview

Things aren't going well for the tough private eyes of San Francisco-based Dan Kearny Associates. Marriages are falling apart, associates are going to jail, and dowagers are demanding sexual favors. Before long, DKA's cases begin to turn up murder and mayhem, bodies and blood, all engineered by someone who would like to see a troubled agency rendered null and void.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892965924
• ISBN13: 9780892965922
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A great mystery author with terrific character-smarts

Joe Gores is one of the most entertaining mystery authors around, no argument. He can write really tough, noir stories, but my favorites have always been his "DKA" novels, featuring Daniel Kearny, king of the San Francisco repo men, and his crew of talented and slightly strange operatives: Larry Ballard, good-looking white-bread and black belt in assorted martial arts; Bart Heslip, black ex-boxer and Larry's best friend; Giselle...

YOWZA ! ZOWIE!! Heh heh heh ...YIKES ! Good book, 'nuff said

Grab onto those armrests Folks ! Reading "CONTRACT NULL & VOID" will find one clutching the armrest in suspense filled anticipation, gripping to keep from laughing oneself onto the floor, and leaning an elbow in deep thought and contemplation. DKA is a hit as an agency! A cool, calculating efficient soap opera. The world is revealed in all its glorious personalities, the hunter and prey, the fragile webs of relationships,...