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Backfire: A Classic Noir Crime Novel


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A cop in love with his partner's wife, an unauthorized stakeout, and one dead officer: Backfire is lean, hard-edged crime fiction built on guilt, desire, and a fatal mistake. Marty Donovan is already in dangerous territory before the shooting starts. His feelings for Lenore, his partner's wife, have pulled him into emotional compromise, and the off-the-books attempt to crack a stubborn case only tightens the trap. When the stakeout goes wrong and his partner is killed, Marty is left with a crime to solve, a secret to protect, and a life that is closing in around him.

Dan J. Marlowe gives the story the stripped-down force of classic noir: compromised motives, bad decisions, police pressure, sexual tension, and the grim knowledge that one lie usually demands another. Marty's attempt to find the killer becomes inseparable from his own fear of exposure, turning the investigation into a study of panic, loyalty, corruption, and self-preservation. The result is a swift, unsentimental crime novel in which justice is never clean and every choice carries a cost.

First published in 1961, Backfire stands near the turning point between Marlowe's early crime work and the darker, more ruthless reputation he would secure with The Name of the Game Is Death. This Black Curtain Books edition is suited to readers of vintage noir, hard-boiled crime fiction, police suspense, paperback originals, mid-century American crime novels, and stories where the real danger begins after the first bad decision.



About the Author :
Dan J. Marlowe (1914-1986) was an American crime novelist best known for his hard-boiled fiction, noir plots, and fast-moving paperback originals. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Marlowe came to crime writing after an earlier career outside publishing and quickly established himself as a strong voice in mid-century American suspense. His work often centres on men under pressure, criminals and lawmen caught in tightening traps, and the brutal consequences of fear, greed, violence, obsession, and betrayal.Marlowe's best-known novel, The Name of the Game Is Death, helped secure his reputation among readers of noir and hard-boiled crime fiction, but his broader body of work includes police stories, standalone suspense novels, and later action-oriented series fiction. Books such as Backfire, Strongarm, Never Live Twice, and Death Deep Down show his ability to combine direct prose, criminal psychology, and escalating danger. His fiction remains of interest to readers of vintage crime, Black Curtain-style noir, paperback original fiction, police suspense, and the darker side of American popular literature.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781515426196
  • Publisher: Black Curtain Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Black Curtain Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 449 gr
  • ISBN-10: 151542619X
  • Publisher Date: 03 Apr 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Classic Noir Crime Novel
  • Width: 152 mm


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