Dark Companion

Name: Dark Companion
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Jim Nisbet
ISBN: 9781482913651

Author: Jim Nisbet

Narrator: Neil Shah

Unabridged: 4 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 08/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Crime

Synopsis

Acclaimed crime fiction writer Jim Nisbet sets forth a noir gem that lays bare the foibles of modern-day America with tremendous force. Banerjhee Rolf, a bright, levelheaded Indian American scientist, is content to spend his days with his wife, tending his garden and studying his beloved astronomy. When Rolf s relationship with Toby Pride, his seedy, drug-dealing neighbor, and Prides stoner girlfriend takes a weird turn, Rolfs placid world is shattered, and he becomes a fugitive from justice. Crime, cosmology, politics, philosophy, physics, and more enter into this cautionary tale, which climaxes with the suddenness of a cobra strike and then delivers a denouement thats both stunning and absolutely perfect.

About Jim Nisbet

Jim Nisbet is
the author of a dozen novels and five books of poetry. He has been nominated
for the Pushcart Prize three times, short-listed for the Hammett Prize, and
published in ten languages. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam on February 24, 2016

It's hard to pigeonhole this short and peculiar novel; I suppose "noir" would not be inaccurate, but it's not classic noir in the sense of following members of the criminal class as they reap what they have sown. It's more like watching a stodgy sedan destroyed in a fiery wreck. An Indian-American (......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on November 10, 2017

This is one of the most off-kilter and original noir books I've read since Charles Willeford went to that Dade County Rest Home in the sky. The book follows two men, neither of whom I cared for, but it's a tribute to the author's keen characterization and pacing that I not only followed these two me......more

Goodreads review by Max on May 05, 2013

Excellent. Pensive, reflective and painfully noir.......more

Goodreads review by Randy on October 27, 2012

Cool neo-noir. Quentin Tarantino meets Raymond Chandler. Odd but satisfying.......more

Goodreads review by Justin on May 09, 2012

A slim enjoyable book that reads like a blend of Vonnegut, Crumley, Highsmith, and Willeford. It sort of just ends, but I'm actually fine with that.......more