{"product_id":"2940157988302","title":"Spook","description":"With a new case, a new partner, and a new P.I., Nameless is back--and Bill Pronzini's much-praised Bleeders did not bring to a close the series that Booklist calls \"a stunning and unique achievement in crime fiction\" and \"one of the greatest-ever detective series.\" Instead, in Spook, a pivotal novel in the remarkably successful Nameless Detective series, Pronzini, working at the top of his form, takes his seasoned private-eye hero into a new phase of a still-evolving thirty-year career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShaken after a hair's-breadth escape from death, Nameless has made some changes in his professional life: He's taken on his smart, young assistant Tamara as a partner, and he's hired Jake Runyon, a reticent ex-cop with a hammerhead jaw and troubled past, to work with him in the field. But he's not put himself out to pasture. Again he enters San Francisco's shadowy underworld, this time in a search for the identity of a gentle, mentally disturbed homeless man who has been found dead in an alley doorway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the dead man's street name--Spook (for his habit of talking at length with two ghosts he called Dot and Luke)--clues are few. Eventually, though, they take the investigation to Aspen Creek, the small, isolated town high in the California Sierras where the nameless victim has left behind him a tragic history of murder and madness. More dangerously, and unpredictably, in Nameless's low-end office on O'Farrell Street, seventeen years of repressed rage are about to erupt again into violent revenge--from a hot-eyed wild man brandishing a Micro Uzi SMG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Straightforward, honest and effective... [Nameless is] in top form as he has often been in Pronzini's award-winning series.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Nameless Detective is a classic private-eye hero.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Chicago Sun-Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning and unique achievement in crime fiction. 'Nameless' has become an American treasure.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Booklist","brand":"Speaking Volumes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47158448619760,"sku":"2940157988302","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157988302_p0.jpg?v=1764117533","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157988302","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}