Jim Nisbet: 17 books

Jim Nisbet is a cult favorite in Europe and it's easy to see why. He's "a lot more than just good . . . his style has overtones of Walker Percy's smooth southern satin, but his characters--losers, grifters, con men--hark back to the days of James M. Cain's twisted images of morality," writes...

In the new novel from noir master Jim Nisbet, the Snitch World in question is actually made up of different worlds both old and new, populated with the old-time petty criminals, like Chainbang and Klinger, but also with the modern, including a nouveau femme fatale whose tools of the criminal trade...

Overlook is remedying that with this paperback- the first of nine publications that will make up a Nisbet revolution. It's about as noir as you can get. In a bleak Texas prison Royce, an alcoholic doctor administers Bobby Mencken's last "high," convinced that the convicted killer was innocent....

So goes the logic at the heart of Old and Cold, leading to a spree of hits that are sometimes perfectly executed, sometimes messy, set against the backdrop of San Francisco's beaches, bars, and murky darkened streets. told at breakneck speed in a bravura voice, this novel is Jim Nisbet's finest work...

One such night, he finds himself sharing an otherwise deserted bar with a green-eyed woman. Three days later, Stanley wakes to find himself zipped into a sleeping bag, left for dead. He's missing a kidney, and a doctor kindly informs him that there's something wrong--fatally wrong--with his remaining...

Die Musik ist Curly Watkins' Leben; doch aus den aufregenden Tagen der Punkbewegung in San Francisco sind ihm nur seine Gitarre geblieben und ein riesiges Kraken-Tattoo auf dem Kopf. Die meisten seiner alten Freunde sind längst tot, doch Curly hat überlebt und schlägt sich mit Auftritten in Cafés...

In The Syracuse Codex, Nisbet returns in a wild tale of skullduggery, mayhem, and history peopled with a rogue’s gallery of the eccentric and unscrupulous.San Francisco frame maker Danny Kestrel regularly rubs elbows with the rich and immoral at art openings and commissions. But he’s never dreamt...

Brand new stories by: Domenic Stansberry, Barry Gifford, Eddie Muller, Robert Mailer Anderson, Michelle Tea, Peter Plate, Kate Braverman, David Corbett, Alejandro Murguía, Sin Soracco, Alvin Lu, Jon Longhi, Will Christopher Baer, Jim Nesbit, and David Henry Sterry. San Francisco Noir lashes...

Als Gefängnisarzt von Huntsville, Texas, hat Dr. Royce die unangenehme Aufgabe, die Hinrichtung eines zum Tode verurteilten jungen Schwarzen medizinisch zu begleiten. Der Delinquent erscheint in Anbetracht seines Schicksals sonderbar unbeteiligt. Noch während das Gift in die Adern des jungen Mannes...

Klinger hat schon einiges durchgemacht und hängt am liebsten unter seinesgleichen in den lausigsten Kaschemmen San Franciscos ab. Mit Kaffee, Zigaretten und ein paar Drinks durch den Tag zu kommen und eine Bleibe für die Nacht zu finden sind sein Ansporn, sich als Kleinkrimineller seinen Pflichtanteil...

Der indisch-stämmige Akademiker Banerjhee Rolf hat es in Kalifornien zu einem schmucken Eigenheim gebracht; in der Biotech-Branche scheinen ihm die Türen offen zu stehen. Doch die Idylle trügt: Eine feindliche Übernahme seinerFirma kostet ihn nicht nur Job und Karriere, auch im privaten Umfeld gehen...

Resigning himself to the doldrums of middle age, the only thing Curly Watkins has left of his former life as a punk rocker is a guitar and a tattoo of an octopus on his head. But his quiet new life quickly evaporates when old vices come back to haunt him, leading to a newfound hell of drugs, drink, and murder.

The streets of San Francisco ooze with danger, sex, poets, and technology in this hard-boiled mystery, creating a story that is at turns hilarious, thrilling, and obscene. Set in the 1980s, this is the tale of an idealistic and angst-ridden writer who struggles with day-to-day responsibilities such...

Spider's Cage sees the return of Martin Windrow, the detective first introduced to readers in The Damned Don't Die ("a super thriller" --Los Angeles Times). When Jodie O’Ryan, the country singer he adores, disappears after the death of her grandfather, a millionaire oil man, Windrow sets...