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The streets of San Francisco ooze with danger, sex, poets, and technology in this hard-boiled mystery, creating a story that is at turns hilarious, thrilling, and obscene. Set in the 1980s, this is the tale of an idealistic and angst-ridden writer who struggles with day-to-day responsibilities such as paying his rent on time. Exploring ways to exploit technology, the writer flirts with hacking, while dealing with a world of bars, bordellos, and the AIDS virus. When the writer learns the passwords to the inner workings of the publishing industry's digital realm, he finds himself facing dangers from unexpected places.
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Missing any book by Nisbet should be considered a crime in all 50 states and maybe against humanity.” Bill Ott, Booklist
With Nisbet, you know you can expect anything and you're never disappointed.” Le Figaro
[Nisbet] resembles no other crime fiction writer. He mixes the irony of Dantesque situations with lyric narration, and achieves a luxuriant cocktail that truly leaves the reader breathless.” Drood's Review of Mysteries
[Nisbet] is as weird as the world. . . . It's as if Nisbet inhabited and wrote from a world right next to ours, only weirder.” Rick Kleffel, Bookotron.com
Jim Nisbet is the author of five volumes of poetry and nine novels, including Dark Companion, which was shorted-listed for the 2006 Hammett Prize, and Lethal Injection. He lives in San Francisco.
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Missing any book by Nisbet should be considered a crime in all 50 states and maybe against humanity.” Bill Ott, Booklist
With Nisbet, you know you can expect anything and you're never disappointed.” Le Figaro
[Nisbet] resembles no other crime fiction writer. He mixes the irony of Dantesque situations with lyric narration, and achieves a luxuriant cocktail that truly leaves the reader breathless.” Drood's Review of Mysteries
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[Nisbet] is as weird as the world. . . . It's as if Nisbet inhabited and wrote from a world right next to ours, only weirder.” Rick Kleffel, Bookotron.com
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- PublisherPM Press
- Publication date2010
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- ISBN 13 9781604863079
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. A Moment of Doubt is at turns hilarious, thrilling and obscene. Jim Nisbet?s novella is ripped from the zeitgeist of the 80s, and set in a sex-drenched San Francisco, where the computer becomes the protagonist?s co-conspirator and both writer and machine seem to threaten the written word itself. City as whore provides a backdrop oozing with drugs, poets and danger. Nisbet has written a mad-cap meditation on the angst of a writer caught in a world where the rent is due, new technology offers up illicit ways to produce the latest bestseller, and the detective and other characters of the imagination might just sidle up to the bar and buy you a drink in real life. world of A Moment of Doubt is the world of phone sex, bars and bordellos, AIDS and the lure of hacking. Coming up against the rules of the game--the detective genre itself, has never been such a nasty and gender defying challenge. Plus: An interview with Jim Nisbet, who is ?Still too little read in the United States, it's a joy for us that Nisbet has been recognized here." Regards: Le Mouvement des Id?es. Seller Inventory # SKU1000799
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