The Big Bout [Hardcover]

THE BIG BOUT, a Jimmy Soldier Riley Noir Novel from award-winning and bestselling author Michael Lister Lister's hard-edged prose ranks with the best of contemporary noir fiction. Publisher's Weekly Starred Review of The Big Goodbye. Walk the mean streets of wartime Panama City with Jimmy Soldier Riley, a wounded, woman-haunted knight errant in Michael Lister's resonant new noir series Publisher's Weekly calls a promising private detective series set in 1940s Florida, and Library Journal says peppered with snappy dialog, this hard-boiled mystery by award winner Lister is a swell read. Michael Lister has the world of Florida Panhandle noir all to himself. Tough, violent, and hard-boiled, This novel of obsession and suspense will remind you of Raymond Chandler, Graham Greene, and why you started reading crime novels in the first place. John Dufresne