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Joe Gores


Born
in Rochester, Minnesota, The United States
December 25, 1931

Died
January 10, 2011

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Joe Gores (1931-2011) was the author of the acclaimed DKA series of street-level crime and detection, as well as the stunning suspense novels Dead Man and Menaced Assassin.

He served in the U.S. Army - writing biographies of generals at the Pentagon - was educated at the University of Notre Dame and Stanford, and spent twelve years as a San Francisco private investigator. The author of dozens of novels, screenplays, and television scripts, he won three Edgar Allan Poe Awards and Japan's Maltese Falcon Award.
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3.72 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions
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Final Notice (DKA File, #2)

3.79 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1973 — 15 editions
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A Time of Predators

3.30 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1969 — 24 editions
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Dead Man

3.43 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions
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Interface

4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1974 — 11 editions
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“Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.”
Joe Gores

“Always write as if you will never have the blessed chance to write again, so this has to be the best thing you've ever done. Do that, and it will be.”
Joe Gores

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