Black Hornet

‘James Sallis is doing some of the most interesting and provocative work in the field of private eye fiction. His New Orleans is richly atmospheric and darker than noir. Black Hornet is terrific’

Lawrence Block

‘Wry… Powerful… A rich tapestry of social unrest and vividly evoked characters and settings… What Chester Himes did for Harlem… and Walter Mosley is now doing for Los Angeles, James Sallis is doing for New Orleans’

New York Times

‘Haunting… Black Hornet is fast-moving, elliptical, and like a jazz trumpet solo, has a plaintive note of melancholy woven through it’

Washington Post Book World

‘Sallis wants to harmonise detective fiction and ‘literature’ and succeeds so well that, like Walter Mosley, we scarcely even notice’

Gerald Houghton , The Edge Magazine

‘A thoughtful, existential tale told in evocative prose’

Rob Kitchin , The View from the Blue House