The Loud Adios - Hardcover

Ken Kuhlken

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ISBN 10: 0312059515 ISBN 13: 9780312059514

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1991

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The Loud Adios - Winner of St. Martin's/ Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye novel competition, THE LOUD ADIOS is set on the home front during World War II. Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German and Mexican Nazis.

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About the Author:

Some of Ken s favorites are early mornings, the desert in Spring, kind women, sports played by those who don t take themselves too seriously, people who tell the truth, most kids, and films he and his twelve-year-old Zoe can enjoy together. He reads classic novels, philosophy, and all sorts of mysteries. On his blog, he may review some of these works. He may also rant or speculate about living as a writer, writing, art in general, or the reasons for his fascination with history. He has long been a writer, of novels, stories, articles, poems, and essays. Lots of honors have come his way, including a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, Poets, Essayists and Novelist s Ernest Hemingway Award, Private Eye Writers of America Best First Novel and Shamus Best Novel, and several San Diego and Los Angeles Book Awards.

From Publishers Weekly:

Winner of the publisher's annual Best First Private Eye Novel contest, this brooding, atmospheric tale set during WW II stirs a heady brew of corruption, Nazis, a blameless young girl and a fortune in gold. PI Tom Hickey, drafted in his late 30s and deserted by a wife who deems him both too honorable and too poor, agrees to help young soldier Clifford Rose rescue his beautiful but simpleminded young sister, Wendy, from the Tijuana dive where she dances nude. Hickey, an MP stationed at the border crossing near San Diego, Calif., has useful connections. But the mission is complicated by the sinister Senor Zarp, a Nazi thug using Wendy in certain bloody rites designed to bolster the local German populace and corrupt Mexican officials in their support of the fatherland. Freeing Wendy, Clifford is killed and Hickey finds himself the guardian of an otherworldly innocent to whom he is painfully attracted. When she tells him about a mountain of gold being held by Zarp and an obscenely wealthy Mexican family, Hickey, with the aid of a few poor Indian laborers, decides to commandeer the loot and derail a Nazi invasion scheme. Kuhlken ( Midheaven ) weaves a complex plot around a complex man, a weary hero who tries to maintain standards as all around him fall to temptation.
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