Sleuths (2011)
“It was hot, overcrowded, dirty, and seemed saturated with a permanent sweet-sour stink. But the main reason was that it was full of people you couldn't trust, people who would cut your throat for a couple of dinars and smile while they were doing it.
In his room at the St. George, on the Boulevard Salah Bouakouir, he stood sourly looking out over the harbor and the Mediterranean beyond. It was washday, and every grillwork balcony on every stark-white, tile-roofed building was draped with la...undry: a gigantic open-air dry-cleaning plant. In the hotel garden below, the palms and the olive and acacia trees had a wilted, strangulated look. Like Algiers itself, even on its best days.
Carmody turned from the window, began to pace the room–a lean, predatory man, thirty-seven years old, with flat green eyes and shaggy graying-black hair. A sardonic mouth made him appear faintly satanic. There was a vague air of brittleness about him, as if you could hurt him physically without too much effort; but his eyes told you this was a lie, that he was as hard as a block of forged steel inside.MoreLess
In his room at the St. George, on the Boulevard Salah Bouakouir, he stood sourly looking out over the harbor and the Mediterranean beyond. It was washday, and every grillwork balcony on every stark-white, tile-roofed building was draped with la...undry: a gigantic open-air dry-cleaning plant. In the hotel garden below, the palms and the olive and acacia trees had a wilted, strangulated look. Like Algiers itself, even on its best days.
Carmody turned from the window, began to pace the room–a lean, predatory man, thirty-seven years old, with flat green eyes and shaggy graying-black hair. A sardonic mouth made him appear faintly satanic. There was a vague air of brittleness about him, as if you could hurt him physically without too much effort; but his eyes told you this was a lie, that he was as hard as a block of forged steel inside.MoreLess
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Edgar G. 2 years ago
Steam would not be "pouring from the twin stacks". It would be smoke, from the boiler fires below. Steam would only be coming from the hooter or whistle whenever the steam release was pulled to make the sound. Just the same as on a railway locomotive. I thought that Pronzini was a WESTERN writer as he's on the Western Writers Wiki list. But he is everything but that. This site's list of REWL western writers is very poor. As are the writers of horse racing novels. Only thrillers seem to be in abundance. Boxing stories are non existant.
Edgar G. 2 years ago
$40,000 in gold in around 1870 weighed about 240 lbs and far too heavy for the description of the small man clasping the valise to his chest whilst going up the gangway to the Riverboat. It would have been impossible.Write Review:
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