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Add Flesh to the Fire: A Black Curtain Crime Novel
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617209659
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: Apr 8 2013
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Orrie Hitt's Add Flesh to the Fire is a raw, fast-moving novel of temptation, violence, and desire from one of the most prolific voices of mid-century paperback fiction. Hitt wrote about people living close to the edge: men and women boxed in by money, lust, resentment, small towns, bad marriages, cheap rooms, and the hard knowledge that one reckless choice can burn through an ordinary life.
In Add Flesh to the Fire, Hitt brings his familiar world of pressure, appetite, and moral danger into sharp focus. His characters are not polished heroes or puzzle-solving detectives, but people caught in the heat of wanting too much, trusting too little, and stepping into situations they may not survive. The result is paperback noir with sweat on it: direct, unsentimental, and driven by the uneasy sense that every bargain has a cost and every escape route may lead deeper into trouble.
This Black Curtain edition restores a tough example of vintage American crime and noir fiction for readers of hard-boiled suspense, mid-century paperback originals, noir melodrama, crime fiction, and the darker side of postwar American popular storytelling. Hitt's fiction belongs to the world of motels, roadhouses, compromised desire, and fatal decisions, where respectability is thin, temptation is close, and the fire is already spreading.
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