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A Gift for the Little Master
A Gift For the Little Master releases the reader into a nightmarish west coast city. By day the city is a crush of traffic -- a place where only bike couriers move freely. At night the city becomes the haunt of criminals and lost souls -- a place frequented by nightcrawling freelance media scanning police channels for saleable stories.
Delores is a nightcrawler blessed and cursed with a ruthless curiosity and a perpetually stoned TV crew. Violent death in the street is just a service industry providing her with the next clip -- her only goal until she becomes the target of a phone stalker. Eli is a bike courier gliding between his unknown history and unknowable future, until he finds himself the target of a white 4-Runner with a vicious case of road rage.
Slicing a path through the city is a serial killer with a penchant for Nietzsche and a great place to hide. And tracking the trail of the killer is Turner, a vigilante cop with policing skills that would not be out of place in a South American death squad. As the hunt winds its way through the city, Turner finds the investigation manipulated by an unseen hand -- one that appears to have ties with both Eli and Delores.
With its echoes of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Charles Dickens, A Gift For the Little Master takes the genre of thriller and thrusts it headlong into the twenty-first century.
Delores is a nightcrawler blessed and cursed with a ruthless curiosity and a perpetually stoned TV crew. Violent death in the street is just a service industry providing her with the next clip -- her only goal until she becomes the target of a phone stalker. Eli is a bike courier gliding between his unknown history and unknowable future, until he finds himself the target of a white 4-Runner with a vicious case of road rage.
Slicing a path through the city is a serial killer with a penchant for Nietzsche and a great place to hide. And tracking the trail of the killer is Turner, a vigilante cop with policing skills that would not be out of place in a South American death squad. As the hunt winds its way through the city, Turner finds the investigation manipulated by an unseen hand -- one that appears to have ties with both Eli and Delores.
With its echoes of Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Charles Dickens, A Gift For the Little Master takes the genre of thriller and thrusts it headlong into the twenty-first century.
352 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2000
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