This just in:
“Bruce DeSilva’s Rogue Island is just my kind of book: beautifully written, to the point, very nasty, and with a hell of a twist.” – Sara Gran, critically-acclaimed author of Claire DeWitt & the City of the Dead.
That meant a lot to me because I’m a great admirer of Sara Gran, and especially of her hellacious noir novel, Dope. When it was published in 2006, my review for The Associated Press started this way:
“Suppose Raymond Chandler and Jim Thompson return from the dead, go on a monthlong
Sara Gran
drinking binge and then hole up in a boarding house to write a book together. Chandler, pipe clenched in his teeth, hunches over a battered Smith-Corona, tapping out the prose. Thompson, one fist strangling the neck of a Rebel Yell bottle, paces behind him, dictating lurid plot twists for a wretched cast of con men, pimps and junkies. Six months later they’d emerge, stinking of whiskey and tobacco, with a manuscript that would look a lot like Dope.”
You can read the whole review of Dope here:
Good luck with Rogue Island. Who wouldn’t be impressed by the cast assembled to blurb on the book. Lehane, Connolly, Coben, et al. Wow!
Thanks. I’m very grateful that the giants of the genre took the time to read the book, and I’m thrilled that they liked it.