Hammett

by Joe Gores

Book Overview

"Gores . . . is as resourceful as the Master himself, and has dreamed up an evocative picture of San Francisco in 1928--with its beauty, its venality, its dirty cops and politicians. Try not to miss... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345251709
• ISBN13: 9780345251701
• Release Date: September 1976
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

First-Rate Detective Novel

No gimmick here. Gores has written, first and formost, the best hard-boiled detective novel I've read in a long time. The historical portrait of Hammett only makes it that much more endearing.

In the best tradition of Hammett and Chandler

A wonderfully suspenseful novel that would make the real Dashiell Hammett proud. Gores did his homework well and it shows. I'm pleased to find that someone is carrying the torch for Hammett, and Chandler too. I've read all of their novels and this one rates right up there with the best. I look forward to the movie being released on DVD.