The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler. * Sunday Times * A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest. * New York Times Book Review * Chester Himes is one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition. His command of nuances of character and dynamics of plot is preeminent among writers of crime fiction. He is a master craftsman. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. A fantasia with a hard brilliant core. * Evening Standard * A fine crime writer ... in a vein of sheer toughness very much his own. * The Times * The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler * Sunday Times * A bawdy, brazen rollercoaster of a novel . . . the wildest * New York Times Book Review * Himes wrote spectacularly successful entertainments, filled with gems of descriptive writing, plots that barely sidestep chaos, characters surreal, grotesque, comic, hip, Harlem recollected as a place that can make you laugh, cry, shudder. Chester Himes is one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition. His command of nuances of character and dynamics of plot is preeminent among writers of crime fiction. He is a master craftsman. A fantasia with a hard brilliant core * Evening Standard *
