Gone, No Forwarding: A Dka File Novel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the rain-soaked streets of San Francisco, where debts go unpaid and people vanish without a trace, the operatives of Daniel Kearney Associates are once again plunged into a labyrinthine world of skip-tracing, repossession, and hard-boiled detection. Gone, No Forwarding is the fourth entry in Joe Gores's acclaimed DKA File series, a propulsive crime novel that chronicles the agency's relentless pursuit of deadbeats, con artists, and the desperately down-and-out, weaving multiple cases into a single, tightly plotted narrative that crackles with authenticity drawn from Gores's own years as a private investigator. Gores writes with a lean, unsparing precision that places him squarely in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett — a debt he wears proudly — while the ensemble cast of DKA operatives lends the series a rare procedural realism that sets it apart from conventional detective fiction. The interlocking storylines build to a tension that is both morally complex and compulsively readable, interrogating the fine line between hunter and hunted in a society riddled with financial desperation. For readers who demand their crime fiction grounded in gritty, street-level truth, Gone, No Forwarding delivers a masterclass in the genre — and leaves an unsettling question lingering long after the final page: what does it mean to truly disappear?
Author: Joe Gores
Format: Hardback
Published: 1979, Victor Gollancz Ltd
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the rain-soaked streets of San Francisco, where debts go unpaid and people vanish without a trace, the operatives of Daniel Kearney Associates are once again plunged into a labyrinthine world of skip-tracing, repossession, and hard-boiled detection. Gone, No Forwarding is the fourth entry in Joe Gores's acclaimed DKA File series, a propulsive crime novel that chronicles the agency's relentless pursuit of deadbeats, con artists, and the desperately down-and-out, weaving multiple cases into a single, tightly plotted narrative that crackles with authenticity drawn from Gores's own years as a private investigator. Gores writes with a lean, unsparing precision that places him squarely in the tradition of Dashiell Hammett — a debt he wears proudly — while the ensemble cast of DKA operatives lends the series a rare procedural realism that sets it apart from conventional detective fiction. The interlocking storylines build to a tension that is both morally complex and compulsively readable, interrogating the fine line between hunter and hunted in a society riddled with financial desperation. For readers who demand their crime fiction grounded in gritty, street-level truth, Gone, No Forwarding delivers a masterclass in the genre — and leaves an unsettling question lingering long after the final page: what does it mean to truly disappear?