Kill City USA

Joe Milo Private Eye

by Warren Roberts

KILL CITY USA is a tastily tangled crime-noir. It features a laconic and appealingly self-deprecating British private investigator, Joe Milo, his enigmatic Jamaican sidekick, Jonah, plus a Technicolor cast of villains, lovers, killers, liars, cheats, bloodsuckers, and miscreant clowns, with morality and political correctness as a fool’s distraction. Page-turning intrigue, character conflict and suspense mixes with lively, crisp and cutting dialogue and dark humour, while paying respect to literary noir in KILL CITY USA. Joe Milo will appeal to readers who like their private dicks to be hip, tough, politically incorrect, street-smart, casually efficient, literate, and to have moral complexity.

290 pages, Paperback

First published November 18, 2011

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Warren Roberts is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University at AlbanySUNY. He is the author of Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary Artists: The Public, the Populace, and Images of the French Revolution, also published by SUNY Press; Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution; Jane Austen and the French Revolution; and Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Painting."