Spade and Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon

Spade and Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon by Joe Gores


Authors
Joe Gores
ISBN
9781409113232
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
352
Dimensions
162 x 241 x 30mm

When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favours and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer's wife. What we don't know is how Spade became who he is. 1921: Spade sets up his own agency in San Francisco and clients quickly start coming through the door. The next seven years will see him dealing with booze runners, water-front thugs, stowaways, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, bumbling cops and the illegitimate daughter of Sun Yat-sen; with murder, other men's mistresses and long-missing money. He'll bring in Archer as a partner, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. He'll tangle with a villain who never loses his desire to make Spade pay big for ruining what should've been the perfect crime. And he'll fall in love - though it won't turn out for the best. It never does with dames... SPADE AND ARCHER is a gritty, pitch-perfect, hard-boiled novel - the work of a master.
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