<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Many people had reasons for killing Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications--like a drug addict, a disappearing suspect, and the fact that Coffin Ed's daughter is up to her neck in the whole explosive business.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get personally involved in a gang dispute in <i>The Real Cool Killers</i>, one of the most provocative cases in Chester Himes's groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. <p/>Many people had reasons for killing Ulysses Galen, a big Greek with too much money and too great a liking for young black girls. But there are complications--like Sonny, found standing over the body, high on hash, with a gun in his hand that fires only blanks; a gang called the Moslems; a disappearing suspect; and the fact that Coffin Ed's daughter is up to her pretty little neck in the whole explosive business.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The action is slapstick, preposterously violent--Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis." <br> --Walter Kirn, <i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius." <br> --Walter Mosley <p/> <br>"For sheer toughness it's hard to beat the black detectives Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Himes never received the recognition he deserved for his books--they combine elements of George V. Higgins, Elmore Leonard, and Richard Stark, with a bleak vision all their own."<br> --<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/>"Himes's Harlem detective series . . . are remarkable for their macabre comic sense and wicked and nasty wit." <br> --Ishmael Reed, <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Chester Himes was born in Missouri in 1909. He began writing while serving a prison sentence for a jewel theft and published just short of twenty novels before his death in 1984. Among his best-known thrillers are <i>Blind Man with a Pistol</i>, <i>Cotton Comes to Harlem</i>, <i> The Crazy Kill</i>, <i>A Rage in Harlem</i>, <i>The Real Cool Killers</i>, and <i>The Heat's On</i>, all available from Vintage. <p/></p>
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