Review
Sierra Lane, once the hero of such films as "Carbine Justice" and "Hell's Rockpile", has fallen on hard times. The one-time B-movie hero has turned to debt collecting to support himself, ironically working for his old Indian co-star. Contacted by a friend, Lane is shocked to be shown some obscene photographs of his stepdaughter. Soon the friend is dead in an "accident". The two events dispel Lane's self pity, setting him off on an investigation: to the Hollywood Hills, Central Avenue, Harlem and, in a way, of himself. Set in Los Angeles of the 1940s, Wright's first novel manages the difficult act of balancing nostalgia, genre homage and excitement with ease. Lane's character, vulnerable and yet hard-bitten, is the archetypal noir hero, so successfully drawn that one feels that further volumes of his adventures are, rightly, inevitable.
Tangled Web
'Winner of the Debut Dagger... and it certainly deserves such a distinction...a satisfying read... so well-written and honest in its style of story-telling'
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