A Moment Of Doubt

Description

Ripped straight from the zeitgeist of the 1980s, Nisbet's novella is set in a sun-drenched San Francisco, where the computer becomes the protagonist's co-conspirator and both writer and machine begin to threaten the written word itself. The city provides a backdrop oozing with drugs, poets and danger. Nisbet has written a mad-cap meditation on the angst of a writer caught up in a world where the rent is due, new technology offers up illicit ways to produce the latest bestseller and the detective of one's latest novel might just turn up at the bar.

Jim Nisbet is the author of five volumes of poetry and nine novels, including Dark Companion, which was shorted-listed for the 2006 Hammett Prize, and Lethal Injection. He lives in San Francisco.

"He is as weird as the world. And for some readers, that's a quality to cherish. It's as if Nisbet inhabited and wrote from a world right next to ours, only weirder." --Rick Kleffel, bookotron.com "Missing any book by Nisbet should be considered a crime in all 50 states and maybe against humanity." --Bill Ott, Booklist "With Nisbet, you know you can expect anything and you're never disappointed." --Le Figaro "Jim Nisbet is a poet... [who] resembles no other crime fiction writer. He mixes the irony of Dantesque situations with lyric narration, and achieves a luxuriant cocktail that truly leaves the reader breathless." --Drood's Review of Mysteries