Death Will Have Your Eyes

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An exciting exploration into the human condition, Death Will Have Your Eyes revolves around the life of David (as he's currently known), whose days as a member an elite corps of spies are long forgotten. Until a phone call beckons him back into the visceral cat-and-mouse game and David is needed to help the only other known survivor of his elite corps. John le Carr(c) meets the Coen brothers in this inspired road novel about secret agents on a mission to find meaning in their lives.

James Sallis has published sixteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the LA Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. He has received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Litterature policiere.

Sallis is a superb writer and this is his best novel yet! -- Michael Moorcock Vivid and strange, with prose like blown glass, Death Will Have Your Eyes is somehow equal parts Borges and Trevanian's Shibumi. I was enthralled -- Jonathan Lethem The espionage novel as existential road movie. Outstanding -- Gerald Houghton * The Edge Magazine *