Terry Mort is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan, where he received an MA in English and began work on a PhD. After grad school he served as an officer in the US Navy. Deployed to Southeast Asia, he saw a variety of action there. Mort has written a number of non-fiction histories, widely praised in the national press. He has also written several novels.
Description
The terms noir and delightful usually aren't used together, but they pair up happily in this entertaining romp. Mort has fun with noir conventions but never mocks them--a difficult trick to bring off and he does it masterfully. A romp through the lighter side of the noir detective life. Readers may recognize some of the characters from real life (is that F. Scott Fitzgerald?), and all will enjoy how Mort makes Riley the pivot point of this fast-paced adventure. Terry Mort writes hard-boiled detective fiction like we all imagine it was once written. Enjoyable and entertaining.