Contract Null and Void

DKA File #5

by Joe Gores

San Francisco's top private investigative agency, Daniel Kearny Associates, becomes the target of a ruthless enemy out to destroy it as its detectives probe an insidious and lethal plot against labor union executives. 25,000 first printing.

Genres: Fiction, Mystery

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]

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]

Great

[Kate Blumenthal]

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.