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Death Will Have Your Eyes
Death Will Have Your Eyes: A Novel about Spies | James Sallis
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Mulholland Books takes pleasure in restoring to print an acclaimed novel of espionage and suspense by the author of Drive. David (as he's currently known) was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. For almost a decade he has been out of the game, working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogue. David is tasked with stopping him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the American landscape, through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board. Both a suspenseful novel of pursuit and a thematically rich exploration of the mind of a spy, Death Will Have Your Eyes is a contemporary classic of the espionage genre.
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Imagine if Kerouac wrote The Bourne Identity...

When a former government trained killing machine starts killing again the only other member of the program leaves retirement to take him down + lengthy meditations on Tom Waits music, French and Italian poetry, diner food, New Orleans, and the isolation of modernity.

Long before the anticlimax I had decided that anything less (more?) than an anticlimax would betray the rest of the book.

MidnightBookGirl He wrote the novel Drive, which I liked (although I did see the movie first). 6y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk @MidnightBookGirl I learned that partway through reading and it made a lot of sense. The tone of this novel had a very similar vibe to that film. 6y
vivastory This sounds spectacular 6y
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“Every day we reconstruct ourselves out of the salvage of our yesterdays.”

#SummerOfShort

youneverarrived Great quote! 6y
RaimeyGallant Love this. 6y
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Eerie bit of synchronicity here.

Rest in peace, Harlan Ellison.

#CurrentRead #SummerOfShort #FarewellHarlan

Leftcoastzen 😢R.I.P. 6y
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