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Praise for Wiley's Shuffle
"Lono Waiwaiole's Wiley novels are the past and the future of hardboiled crime fiction rolled up together inside prose that's as cold and as shiny as the city streets--but there's hope and redemption there too, glinting like the morning sun on wet pavement. Buy this book."
"Prose so sharp you can't even feel the cut, scalpel-like in its precision, and driving to the heart by way of the gut. Lono Waiwaiole is that rarest of writers--brutally honest, unflinchingly brave, and not about to take no for an answer. Wiley's Shuffle will grab you by the neck and yank you forward, all the while capturing your heart with a pickpocket's touch. Neither Wiley, nor Waiwaiole, are to be missed!"
"A dark, disturbing and wickedly funny tale of crime, depravity and redemption on the mean streets of Portland, Oregon. Lono Waiwaiole writes prose so sharp, your fingers will bleed as you turn the pages. Crime stories don't get any darker, or more briskly entertaining, than this. Wiley's Shuffle puts Waiwaiole in the same league as Elroy, Leonard, and Lehane...and gives them good reason to start looking over their shoulders. If this book was any darker, the pages would be pitch black."
"In the tradition of the best noir writers, Lono Waiwaiole offers spare hard-hitting prose, eminently believable characters, and a story that rips along at a ferocious pace. Wiley's Shuffle is the real deal." |