Panic by Bill Pronzini

Panic by Bill Pronzini

Broke and fleeing his shattered marriage, Jack Lennox takes a bus in the direction of the southwestern desert. He takes work with Al Perrins, solely to see two effectively-dressed males murder Perrins the next morning. However they see Lennox, and he turns into each hunter and hunted. A novel of suspense by the author of THE SNATCH.

Bill Pronzini is simply one of the masters. He appears to have taken a crack at nearly every genre: mysteries, noirish thrillers, historicals, locked-room mysteries, journey novels, spy capers, men's motion, westerns, and, in fact, his masterful, long-working Anonymous personal detective sequence, now coming into its fourth decade, with no signs of artistic flagging.

He is additionally ghosted several Brett Halliday brief tales as Michael Shayne for Mike Shayne's Thriller Journal, and has managed to collaborate with such fellow writers as John Lutz, Barry Wahlberg, Collin Wilcox and Marcia Muller.

Still, if he never ventured into fiction writing, his non-fiction work, as each writer and editor, would still earn him a spot in the P.I. genre's Hall of Fame. Besides his two tributes to a number of the very worst in crime fiction (what he calls "alternative classics"), Gun in Cheek and Son of Gun in Cheek, and one on western fiction (entitled Six Gun in Cheek, naturally), he is the co-writer (with Marcia Muller) of 1001 Midnights.

The Mystery Writers of America have nominated him for Edgar Awards several occasions and his work has been translated into quite a few languages and he's published in almost thirty countries. He was the very first president of the Personal Eye Writers of America, and he's obtained three Shamus Awards from them, in addition to its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. His passion for the old crime pulps is essentially responsible for conserving them in the public's eye. He's amassed a huge assortment of books and magazines and has all the time been an omnivorous reader; all of which made him a natural when it came to modifying numerous anthologies. He admits "it was a pleasure tracking down good tales to fit a particular anthology theme." However after editing 80 or so of them over a interval of twenty-some years, he decided it was "more than enough."

Always a vital darling, although never a real best-vendor, the twenty-sixth installment in the long-working Anonymous sequence, Crazybone, ended with the intriguing risk that Nameless and his wife, Kerry, would undertake a toddler, suggesting a transfer far from the laborious-edged dramas of a lone wolf private eye, and in fact, Pronzini at the time let it be recognized, in Thriller & Detective Month-to-month, and perhaps elsewhere, that he wasn't going to put in writing any extra Nameless novels, until he got an exceptional provide from some publisher. He therefore hoped to finish the sequence on an upbeat observe, and to permit for its attainable (and from this quarter, a lot-hoped for) revival.

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