“A rattlingly good action melodrama spiced with a maximum of humor and a minimum of self-consciousness.”
—The New York Times
“One of the most important American writers of the 20th century. . . . A quirky American genius.”
—Walter Mosley
“Some of the most exciting—and comic—crime novels ever written.”
—The Washington Post
“Chester Himes is the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
