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"Every June 15th out at North Precinct, 'A' relief and graveyard shift started killing dogs. The police brass and local politicians only smiled if they were asked about it, shook their heads, and said it was just another one of those old myths about the precinct. The cops at North Precinct called them 'Night Dogs', feral dogs, wild and half-wild, who roamed the districts after dark. Their ancestors had been pets, beaten and abandoned by their owners to breed and give birth on the streets." That's the stately, carefully weighted language and metaphor that begins what James Crumley (The Last Good Kiss) calls "the best cop novel I have ever read." Of course, the "night dogs" are not only the roaming canines but also the people from the rougher neighbourhoods of Portland, Oregon--most particularly the police who work out of North Precinct. Seen through the eyes of a patrolman named Hanson, a Vietnam vet who thought he had seen the worst the world had to offer over there but is proved wrong every day, the story at first seems episodic, unconnected. But gradually all the threads of anger and pain come together to create an unforgettable picture of urban angst. Author Kent Anderson, who was a Vietnam vet and a Portland policeman in the 1970s, says that some readers might find his book disturbing or offensive: "The truth sometimes affects people that way." Then he adds a chilling footnote: "Things are much worse now than they were in 1975."
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First published by a small press in 1996, Night Dogs, thanks to the vigor of its prose and its unvarnished view of police life, aroused considerable interest but disappeared almost immediately into rare-book dealers' catalogues. Bantam is relaunching the book, and the effort seems worthwhile. Anderson, the author as well of the novel Sympathy for the Devil (1987), stands apart from the crowd of police procedural writers largely because of the clarity of his view of police life, in which loyalty and a sense of being embattled, under siege, create a special, often self-destructive kind of isolation. Anderson's protagonist, Hanson (also featured in Sympathy, a novel set in Vietnam during the war), is a profane, violent, somewhat bigoted patrolman in a violent, down-at-heels Portland, Oregon, neighborhood, drawn into an investigation that seems to lead uncomfortably close to home. The mysteries here are unsurprising - what counts is Anderson's portrait of an angry, self-destructive, yet basically decent man, increasingly at war both with society and his own identity. Strong stuff, well worth reprinting. (Kirkus Reviews)
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"Every June 15th out at North Precinct, 'A' relief and graveyard shift started killing dogs. The police brass and local politicians only smiled if they were asked about it, shook their heads, and said it was just another one of those old myths about the precinct. The cops at North Precinct called them 'Night Dogs', feral dogs, wild and half-wild, who roamed the districts after dark. Their ancestors had been pets, beaten and abandoned by their owners to breed and give birth on the streets." That's the stately, carefully weighted language and metaphor that begins what James Crumley (The Last Good Kiss) calls "the best cop novel I have ever read." Of course, the "night dogs" are not only the roaming canines but also the people from the rougher neighbourhoods of Portland, Oregon--most particularly the police who work out of North Precinct. Seen through the eyes of a patrolman named Hanson, a Vietnam vet who thought he had seen the worst the world had to offer over there but is proved wrong every day, the story at first seems episodic, unconnected. But gradually all the threads of anger and pain come together to create an unforgettable picture of urban angst. Author Kent Anderson, who was a Vietnam vet and a Portland policeman in the 1970s, says that some readers might find his book disturbing or offensive: "The truth sometimes affects people that way." Then he adds a chilling footnote: "Things are much worse now than they were in 1975."
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First published by a small press in 1996, Night Dogs, thanks to the vigor of its prose and its unvarnished view of police life, aroused considerable interest but disappeared almost immediately into rare-book dealers' catalogues. Bantam is relaunching the book, and the effort seems worthwhile. Anderson, the author as well of the novel Sympathy for the Devil (1987), stands apart from the crowd of police procedural writers largely because of the clarity of his view of police life, in which loyalty and a sense of being embattled, under siege, create a special, often self-destructive kind of isolation. Anderson's protagonist, Hanson (also featured in Sympathy, a novel set in Vietnam during the war), is a profane, violent, somewhat bigoted patrolman in a violent, down-at-heels Portland, Oregon, neighborhood, drawn into an investigation that seems to lead uncomfortably close to home. The mysteries here are unsurprising - what counts is Anderson's portrait of an angry, self-destructive, yet basically decent man, increasingly at war both with society and his own identity. Strong stuff, well worth reprinting. (Kirkus Reviews)
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