Goodbye Coast (Ide Joe)(Paperback)

''Private eye Philip Marlowe is transplanted into 21st-century Los Angeles in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to the classic works of Raymond Chandler... The wisecracking dialogue, outlandish characters and vicious slapstick make The Goodbye Coast a joy to read from the very first page''The Times ''A terrific read - pacy, with tension, pathos, wonderful descriptions of LA and some lovely one-liners''Guardian''Sunshine and skullduggery, movie stars and mayhem - Joe Ide brings us Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit''Ian Rankin''How the hell do you write a mystery about Philip Marlowe, set it in Los Angeles, and still make it a total gobsmacking original? That''s the miracle of Joe Ide''s The Goodbye Coast. Ide has created a Philip Marlowe for the 2020s''James Patterson''Not so much a reimagining of Chandler''s world as a reinvigoration. By transplanting Philip Marlowe to 2021 LA, Joe Ide has chiseled off the rust while keeping the soul of one of American fiction''s icons. The Goodbye Coast is a blast from start to finish''Dennis Lehane The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler''s detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los AngelesLos Angeles - a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality and washed-out police. Roaming the city streets is Philip Marlowe: a quiet, lonely, remarkably capable private detective, living beneath the shadow of his father - a once-decorated
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