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Fever: A Nameless Detective Novel (Hardcover)

by Bill Pronzini (Author)

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Forge books; 1st edition edition (May 27 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0765318180
ISBN-13: 978-0765318183
Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 386 g

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Once again Pronzini, soon to be designated an MWA Grand Master, captures the quiet despair of his characters' lives in the 33rd entry in his noirish whodunit series featuring the Nameless Detective (after 2007's Savages). Mitchell Krochek, who's worried about the gambling addiction of his wife, Janice, hires Nameless to trace Janice, who's disappeared for the fourth time in four years. When Jake Runyon, Nameless's associate, traces Janice to an apartment hotel near their San Francisco office, Nameless and Jake decide to honor Janice's request not to reveal her location to her husband. Later, a battered Janice shows up at the detective agency's office, where she agrees to go home, only to vanish again amid circumstances strongly indicating foul play. In an affecting subplot, Jake investigates the mysterious beating of a devoted churchgoer's son.Â This insightful novel will appeal to those who like the mean streets portrayed with understatement and subtlety rather than gory violence. (June)
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“His novels are cerebral, not bloody. There is violence, but of a muted sort, and none of it is gratuitous… The ‘Nameless Detective’ novels are a thinking reader’s detective series.”--The Chicago Sun-Times

“There is no living writer whose work more faithfully embodies the spirit of classic private-eye fiction than Bill Pronzini’s. [It is] classy, classy noir storytelling.”--Les Roberts, Cleveland Plain-Dealer

“One of the greatest-ever detective series.”--Booklist

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5.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative Plotting and Vivid Characters Make This One of the Best Nameless Mysteries, Jun 17 2008

By	Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews (#1 REVIEWER)

Since the Nameless Detective (now, not so nameless) began building a practice with Tamara Corbin, this series has just gotten better and better. With two partners, Nameless and Tamara, dedicated detective, Jake Runyon, and new detective, Alex Chavez (who appears as little more than a name so far), the books can follow many story lines at the same time with different kinds of character and plot complications. It works really well.

Nameless is now in his sixties and trying to be semi-retired, except that cases keep pulling him back into being more active than he would like. Tamara is young and smart, and frustrated by having lost her boyfriend who left town for a new career and another woman. Jake is tormented by the early death of his beloved wife, and his estrangement from his son who lives in San Francisco; Jake's deep pain is the foundation that makes the recent stories more vivid and powerful.

The book starts out innocently enough: Mitchell Krochek wants his wayward wife, Janice, back. She has a habit of dropping out to indulge in her passion for gambling. While she normally returns a lot poorer and of her own accord, this time she's gone for a record amount of time. Jake finds Janice, and Nameless and Tamara confront her. Janice doesn't want to go back, and the detectives are ethically bound not to disclose her location without her permission.

Meanwhile, Tamara has taken on a pro bono case and assigned Jake to it: Rose Youngblood is concerned about her son, Brian, who had been assaulted recently and wouldn't talk about it. Jake finds the investigation to be tougher than expected until he gets an unexpected call that gives him a powerful lead.

Things heat up in the Krochek case when Janice unexpectedly returns to Mitchell . . . and then disappears again amid signs of potential foul play.

Searching out the answers to these seemingly simple puzzles requires lot of careful investigation, hard thinking, and much leg work. The solutions will stun you. Bill Pronzini is at his plot-plotting best in Fever, and he takes the time to make the characters involved in the mystery to be unique and unforgettable.

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