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Frenzy: A Classic Noir Novel of Greed, Violence, and Desperation
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781627551083
Publisher: Black Curtain Press
Published: May 14 2013
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A small-time grifter returns to Southern California looking for one big score and finds himself pulled into a brutal spiral of greed, violence, and self-destruction. In Frenzy, Norm Sands is a card cheat, con man, and born survivor whose bad luck is matched only by his willingness to betray nearly anyone if the payoff looks good enough. Back in his hometown and running out of options, Sands sees a chance to turn pressure into profit-but in Causey's world, every scheme tightens the trap, and every advantage carries the smell of blood.
First published in 1960, Frenzy is lean, nasty, and unmistakably noir: not a detective story built around justice, but a criminal descent driven by appetite, fear, resentment, and doomed calculation. Causey writes in the hard paperback-original tradition of Jim Thompson, Gil Brewer, Charles Williams, and Day Keene, with Southern California giving the novel a sunlit surface and a black heart. For readers of classic noir fiction, hardboiled crime, mid-century paperback crime novels, grifter fiction, and stories about men who mistake desperation for opportunity, Frenzy is a sharp rediscovery from a writer who deserves a stronger place in the Black Curtain line.
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