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Whom Gods Destroy
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781627550376
Publisher: Black Curtain Pr
Published: Apr 23 2013
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Whom Gods Destroy is Clifton Adams's stark exploration of obsession, pride, and the slow collapse of moral restraint.
Adams places ordinary men in extraordinary emotional pressure, revealing how ego, resentment, and misplaced certainty can harden into destructive force. The novel unfolds with deliberate pacing, building tension not through spectacle but through character-through the small decisions that lead, almost inevitably, toward ruin.
Known for his lean prose and unvarnished realism, Adams avoids sentimentality. His landscapes-often rural or small-town America-serve as quiet backdrops to violent psychological shifts. In Whom Gods Destroy, the title's classical warning proves apt: unchecked ambition and wounded pride become catalysts for irreversible consequence.
A concise and unsparing example of mid-century American crime fiction, the novel stands within the tradition of character-driven noir in which fate emerges from temperament rather than coincidence.
This Black Curtain Press edition presents the complete text in its original form.
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