Every Man a Menace

From an exciting new voice in crime fiction comes a vital, edgy new novel centered on an international drug trafficking ring that specializes in Ecstasy

About the Author :
Patrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel, The White Van, was a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. He was born in San Francisco and worked there as an investigator for a decade, both privately and at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office.

Review :
Praise for Every Man a Menace: A Wall Street Journal best mystery of 2016 Strand Magazine's #1 best book of 2016 A Buzz Books pick for fall/winter 2016 An iBooks Best Book of October "Criminal fools populate the drug-selling networks from San Francisco to Bangkok to Miami in Patrick Hoffman's astonishing, violent novel . . . filled with sharply drawn characters . . . A mind-bending, attention-demanding narrative as full of shocks and surprises as an LSD party."-Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal "Every Man a Menace is everything you could want in a thriller--lightning pace, dead-on dialogue, and a twisting, high-torque plot. But, most of all, this novel is smart and authentic, a welcome jolt at a time when so much fiction reads like it rolled off an assembly line."--Carl Hiaasen "Subtle characterization, tricky narrative switchbacks . . . vivid, moody prose . . . closer to Denis Johnson than to Elmore Leonard."--Lorin Stein, Paris Review Daily "This scorching novel takes us to the heart of a multibillion dollar transglobal business we only glimpse in bloody headlines. Fast, terrifying, and at times beautiful, Every Man a Menace is that most unusual thing: a deeply original and frightening crime novel."--Denise Mina, author of Blood, Salt, Water "With style and intrigue, Patrick Hoffman's Every Man a Menace proves that his top-flight debut San Francisco crime novel, The White Van, was no fluke . . . Set largely in San Francisco, Miami and Bangkok, Every Man a Menace vibrates with punchy prose reminiscent of authors like Dashiell Hammett, Elmore Leonard and John Burdett, who made those cities their own . . . An edgy, crisp, compulsive portrait of the merciless players in the international Ecstasy trade."--Shelf Awareness "When chaos surrounds us in real life, even fictional chaos offers a much needed escape for the tired, despairing reader. And when you're guided on a tour of dark doings and double dealings by the likes of Patrick Hoffman, the jolts are all the more electric and the windows into secret places resonate all the more . . . For plot, imagine a younger, edgier Elmore Leonard, a pinch of Pulp Fiction and a dose of Traffic . . . Crime fiction thrives on fresh voices above all, and Hoffman is one of the freshest out there at the moment. I can't wait to see what secret world he lets us in on next."--Sarah Weinman, Book of the Month "Cool and laconic, echoing vintage Elmore Leonard, the early scenes in Patrick Hoffman's new novel, Every Man a Menace, radiate tension. A complex trap is being set--you can almost hear the pulling back of the spring--and around it Hoffman will construct an intricate fretwork of betrayal, blackmail, murder, and retail economics . . . Hoffman is an infernally clever writer . . . Hoffman's puzzles are more human than mechanical. His characters are too complex and his scenes too immediate and engrossing to be diminished by intrigue."--Barnes & Noble Review "[A] haunting transcontinental tale of bad deeds and hard deaths . . . The first paragraph should be cut out and framed as an example of how a narrative is baited, cast and irrevocably hooked . . . Patrick Hoffman is a master storyteller. He breaks a number of conventional rules of the craft, but does so gently and always with good purpose. Every Man a Menace is one of those books that you read and wish would go on and on and on. Indeed, the conclusion leaves a thread hanging . . . It just does not get any better than this."--Bookreporter "Every Man a Menace reveals an isolated act of violence to be a sh