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From Publishers Weekly

Amos Walker, Estleman's hard-boiled Detroit PI, shows no sign of losing steam in the 18th novel in this Shamus Award-winning series (Retro, etc.). When a routine job tracing a deadbeat dad turns violent, Walker's life is saved by Jeff Starzek, an acquaintance on the wrong side of the law. That act of kindness eventually involves the detective in a murky, twisty inquiry into Starzek's disappearance. The trail leads Walker to a cold, desolate area near Lake Huron and the bizarre Church of the Inland Sea, an evangelical house of worship marked by images of the martyred St. Sebastian. Evidence turns up suggesting that Starzek has moved from smuggling cigarettes to working with a terrorist counterfeiting ring. Unlike many other authors, Estleman successfully introduces a topical post-9/11 plot line into his creation's world. No current writer has consistently evoked Chandler and Marlowe like Estleman, whose steady if unflashy work has yet to gain him the plaudits or name recognition he deserves. (Apr.)
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From Booklist

It's fitting that Spielberg's cult classic Duel is playing in the background when Amos Walker joins the crowd at a smoke-filled trucker's bar. Soon enough, the cynical Detroit PI finds himself in a deadly vehicle duel of his own. By that time, however, he's already been shot, bludgeoned, and arrested--all during the course of tracking down a man who once saved Amos' life, cigarette smuggler Jeff Starzek, now possibly involved with counterfeiters. Though hobbled by a bullet that nearly cost him his leg, Walker doesn't slow down much as he picks up Starzek's trail, which leads from a middle-class suburb in Detroit to a tiny evangelical church to a remote motel in frigid northern Michigan and then back again before things finally fall into place. In this, Walker's eighteenth outing, Estleman delivers his usual combination of gripping action and satisfying irony, further cementing the solitary, hardboiled PI's reputation for giving as good as he gets. The riveting chase scenes are tailor-made for the screen. Stephanie Zvirin
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