Dead Man

“Mr. Gores writes some of the hardest, smoothest, most lucid prose in the field.”

—
Marilyn Stasio,
New York Times Book
Review

“A roller-coaster ride of outrageous plot twists, vicious double-crosses and a gloriously violent, double-barreled finale.”

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San
Francisco Chronicle

“One of the edgiest, liveliest novels a thriller fan is ever likely to encounter.”

—Phoenix Gazette

“DEAD MAN is superb stuff, a ferocious man-on-the-run tale that’s top gear all the way.”

—Orange County Register

“A master.”

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Chicago Sun-Times

“A tough, taut writer who views his subject matter unsparingly and unsentimentally.”

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Washington Post

“Pulls the rug out from under you with a professional snap. Together with Gores’s sublimely comic, and utterly different,
32 Cadillacs:
a towering pair of back-to-back home runs.”

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Kirkus
Reviews

“Exciting . . . Gores is a first-rate crime writer—in the same league as Lawrence Block, whose awards would fill a room.”

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Houston Post

“This is one author who can write with a vengeance. DEAD MAN is suspenseful, and its violence is both frequent and gruesomely
ingenious.”

—New
York Mewsday

“Total action. . . . The conclusion is a real page turner.”

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Boston Sunday Globe

“A stunning climax. . . . Plenty of plot twists, violence and sex…. An updated, slightly self-reflective, comic detective
story with a hero both hard-boiled and sensitive, who finally recovers his soul.”

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Publishers Weekly