Only the Wicked
By Gary Phillips
By Gary Phillips
By Gary Phillips
By Gary Phillips
Part of An Ivan Monk Mystery
Part of An Ivan Monk Mystery
Category: Crime Fiction
Category: Crime Fiction
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$17.95
Aug 20, 2024 | ISBN 9781641294454
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Aug 20, 2024 | ISBN 9781641294461
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Only the Wicked
Praise
Praise for Only the Wicked
“[Phillips’] is a voice that should be heard and celebrated.”
—Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author of the Harry Bosch mysteries
“We always hope that fiction will make us wise. Writing it, at least, seems to have made Gary Phillips wise far beyond his years: he knows that communicites are our new villages; that the same river runst through blues, bebop and rap; that the past, however we try to outdistance it, is always our present. Most importantly, he embraces the one true mystery: the mystery that we remain, forever, to one another.”
—James Sallis, author of Drive
“Gary Phillips is my kind of writer and Ivan Monk my kind of detective . . . . An unbeatable combination.”
—Sara Paretsky, author of the V. I. Warshawski series
“If Walter Mosley woke up the genre [of LA-based crime fiction] to the fact that contemporary Black writers can jam on noir like juke joints, long shadows, and mean streets as surely as Michael Jordan is the Mozart of the hardwood, then Gary Phillips . . . should positively nail its devotees to the wall.”
—The Austin Chronicle
“[Phillips] is a natural-born writer, who has clearly studied his predecessors, both literary and political, US and foreign. He writes a tight, unadorned phrase most of the time, which serves to highlight his excursions into traditional snappy dialogue and hard-boiled philosophy.”
—The Morning Star (UK)
“[A] gripping tale starring a genuinely charistmatic hero.”
—Booklist
Praise for the Ivan Monk series
“In the tradition of Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op, Ivan Monk takes on a corrupt world . . . He makes us feel that the war he’s waging is for our own salvation.”
—Walter Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins series
“Seen through the prose of Gary Phillips, L.A. seems a new and much more interesting place.”
—Tom Nolan, author of Ross Macdonald: A Biography
“Phillips creates a harrowing, deft portrayal of post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, capturing its people, its mood and its language with a skill so keen that he verges on sleight of hand.”
—Wendy Hornsby, author of the Maggie MacGowen series
“Gary Phillips knows Los Angeles and gives readers a realistic, gritty portrait of this city in turmoil through the eyes of his African-American PI.”
—The Armchair Detective
“Monk’s sense of absurdity and his perfectly emulsified blend of toughness and tenderness make him one of crime fiction’s most appealing heroes.”
—Booklist
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