Damnation Street (Weiss and Bishop Novels)

by Andrew Klavan (Author)

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  2007

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  They are two sworn enemies with a single obsession: a woman on the run from them both. Scott Weiss is a private detective. John Foy is a professional killer known as the Shadowman. The woman is Julie Wyant, an ex-prostitute with a hidden past and an uncertain future. Julie spent one night with Foy - a night of psychopathic cruelty that Foy called love. Desperate to get away from him, she vanished without trace, but Foy wants her back and won't rest until he has her. The only man who can find her is Scott Weiss, a middle aged private eye with a romantic soul and an empath's ability to read others. Before she disappeared Julie begged him not to come after her, fearing that he would bring the killer in his wake. But Weiss can't stay away, believing that the only way that Julie will ever escape is to force a final confrontation with the Shadowman. Matching each other move for move Foy and Weiss pursue Julie from San Francisco across the badlands of Arizona to Union City, Nevada where finally they meet - on Damnation Street.

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  2006

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  Scott Weiss is a middle-aged private eye based in San Francisco, an ex-cop with a basset hound's face, a romantic's soul and an empath's ability to read others. He's holed up in a hotel room, thinking of the girl he should have left alone and waiting for the Shadowman, the hitman he knows is stalking him. Jim Bishop is a young, good-looking livewire with a taste for violence, drugs and loose women. Bishop is holed up too, three-days-drunk with the blonde who nearly killed him on his mind and the cops on his tail. Bishop used to work for Weiss until he screwed him over for stolen cash and a couple of hook-ups with his killer girlfriend. Now, he is Weiss's only hope as his ex-employer heads towards an almost certainly fatal confrontation with the Shadowman. Determined to redeem himself, Bishop needs to find the elusive killer before he finds Weiss...With its sinuous plot, gritty dialogue and sheer drive, Damnation Street excels in every measurable category; it's Andrew Klavan at his best.