Raw reality A tough taut writer Saves a gutpunch for the climax The Washington PostIn the first book of Joe Goress razorsharp Daniel Kearny Associates series a DKA investigator clings to life after a devastating car crash The police are ready to write it off as a drunk driving incident but the DKA team knows it was an attempted homicide Now they have seventytwo hours to search the backstreets of San Francisco and find the truth about the accident from a stripper an embezzler an excon and other unsavory characters Gores a former detective and threetime Edgar Awardwinner spins a gritty fastmoving tale that mystery lovers cant resist and compares with the best of Hammett and Chandler This new edition of Dead Skip features a bonus DKA short story File 2 Stakeout on Page StreetA traditional American crime novel out of Black Mask Hammett and Chandler The Continental Op could do no more Gores has come up with a winner The New York TimesGores is one of the very few authentic private eyes to enter the field of fiction since Dashiell Hammett Anthony BoucherThe hard compelling smack of raw truth Ellery Queen on the DKA File series