The Isaac Quartet: Blue Eyes, Marilyn the Wild, the Education of Patrick Silver, Secret Isaac
(Part of the Isaac Sidel Series and Black Box Thrillers Series)
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Book Overview
The Isaac Quartet contains four detective stories from an internationally acclaimed master of the genre. Blue Eyes, the first book in Jerome Charyn's legendary crime series, introduces Isaac Sidel -- the toughest, most incorruptible police inspector in the biz. In Marilyn the Wild, Isaac confronts the hot-headed daughter of the first deputy police commissioner. The Education of Patrick Silver tells the story of a giant shoeless Irishman who becomes just another pawn in the war between Isaac and a gang of Peruvian pimps. And in Secret Isaac, a scar on a prostitute's cheek sends Isaac on a desperate trip to Ireland in search of relief from the tightening grip on his soul. "Packed with manic energy, peopled with bizarre characters and outrageous situations. [Charyn] sounds like a ... Jewish Philip Marlowe." -- Chicago Sun-Times "These books constitute the highest kind of novelistic art ... absolutely unique among contemporary writers." -- Los Angeles Times
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1568582285
ISBN13:9781568582283
Release Date:June 2002
Publisher:Da Capo Press
Length:548 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
an undiscovered genius
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
jerome charyn is the proper heir to dashiell hammett and ross macdonald. a complex writer with an ear for the music in language.
phew
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
I haven't read the whole quartet yet, but Charyn's novels are dark abstract fantasies, and I love them. I started a few years ago with Maria's Girls, and had trouble finding any other Charyn novels after that. Sometimes they can be hard going but stick with it they are worth while. All the characters are obscurely eccentric and inhabit an exotic almost halucenogenic world.I can't recommend them enough. Charyn is a genius. Buy them and be amazed.
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