Sirens

by Stephen Willard Pett

In startling, often brutal prose, Stephen Pett marks his fiction debut with the story of Carlos Cade: a young, down-and-out outlaw in Salt Lake City with an obsessive drive for revenge on a childhood playmate.

401 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 1990

Reviews

[Mike O'Shaughnessy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not every great book can be considered a classic, but this one should be. It's the first novel I've read that left me breathless at its conclusion. A compelling story with poetry in every paragraph.

[Robert Morgan Fisher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five stars for the hardboiled poetry of the prose and ambiguity--though this is a tad overwritten and unnecessarily confusing. Should have been 300 instead of 400 pages and that's a fact.