A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive.Sarah Jane Pullman is a cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her...

The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, Drive is a dark thriller that was named an Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. This edition will feature extra...

The Guitar in Jazz presents in rich, entertaining detail the history and development of the guitar as a jazz instrument. In a series of essays by some of jazz's leading historians and critics, the volume traces the impressive evolution...

"Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delaney" ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich mit dem Werk des renommierten Science-Fiction-Autors Samuel R. Delaney auseinandersetzen. Herausgegeben von James Sallis, bietet das Buch eine...

"I Spit on Your Graves" ist ein provokanter Kriminalroman, der ursprünglich von dem französischen Autor Boris Vian unter dem Pseudonym Vernon Sullivan geschrieben wurde. In der Geschichte geht es um Lee Anderson, einen afroamerikanischen...

Driver ist kein Verbrecher. Jedenfalls nicht im engeren Sinne. Er ist nur der beste Stuntfahrer, den man in Hollywood kriegen kann. Und manchmal fährt er bei Raubüberfällen den Fluchtwagen, obwohl ihn das gar nicht so richtig...

Sarah Jane is a good cop. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape...

Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s pulp fiction and...

A clever, thought-provoking thriller. von Sallis, James

In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Dr Lamar Hale, the town's all-purpose general practitioner, surgeon and town conscience.

Drive von Sallis, James

Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, it was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when daylight...