Books : Violent Spring (An Ivan Monk Mystery)
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by: Gary Phillips
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781874061755
Format: Import
ISBN: 1874061750
Label: No Exit Press
Manufacturer: No Exit Press
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 1997
Publisher: No Exit Press
Studio: No Exit Press
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Rating: - Monk is an affable guide through the thickets
After being fired from his job as a union organizer in 1989, Gary Phillips took a writing class with Robert Crais (author of the Elvis Cole series) on how to write a mystery novel. Crais taught the class how to structure a book by dissecting Robert Parker's first Spenser mystery, The Godwulf Manuscript (see Orrin's review of A Savage Place). Phillips eventually found a way to incorporate his own liberal social beliefs, the elements of the classic hard-boiled private eye genre and the backdrop of ... Read More
Rating: - A great new detective series begins here!
Gary Phillips' _Violent Spring_ introduces readers to his detective, Ivan Monk, a great new hardboiled private eye for the 90s.
Monk is hired by two seemingly disparate groups, a Korean Merchants' group and SOMA, Save Our Material Assets, a group interested in rebuilding downtown LA, following the riots of 1992, to look into the murder of a Korean businessman, whose body is uncovered during a ground-breaking ceremony. Monk gets involved in a politically-charged, racially diverse investigation ... Read More
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