Contract Null and Void

DKA File #5

by Joe Gores

Things aren't going well for the tough private eyes of San Francisco-based Dan Kearny Associates. Marriages are falling apart, associates are going to jail, and dowagers are demanding sexual favors. Before long, DKA's cases begin to turn up murder and mayhem, bodies and blood, all engineered by someone who would like to see a troubled agency rendered null and void.

Genres: Fiction, Mystery

336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 1996

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars. DKA adds body-guard service protecting a software developer under threat prior to inking his IT sales contract. DKA detectives still doing repossessions and cases involve a inion local, politician, jazz musician, and truck driver. This is a bit wild and wacky.

[Moe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great

[Kate Blumenthal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly, I liked it. A bit raw in places;lots of strange but sympathetic characters; several plot lines that paralleled and/or intersected in interesting ways.