The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of: Dave Brandstetter Investigation 4

The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today - LA TimesHansen, one of the best practitioners of the California private-eye school...writes crisply with a lean, spare prose that echoes Hammett, Chandler and Macdonald - Washington PostIn Brandstetter, Hansen has developed a sympathetic character of depth and integrity - Chicago Sun-TimesNo mystery writer is better at evoking the landscape, the light, the architecture and the ethnic diversity of Los Angeles - TimeHansen is a strong unflinching writer and everything in his taut prose is real - Boston GlobeAn exceptionally urbane literary style - New York Times Book ReviewHansen writes about Southern California with the descriptive love once given it by Raymond Chandler - Herald ExaminerAn excellent craftsman, a compelling writer, he has a real gift for storytelling - for character, for scene, for pace independent of violence - New Yorker