Tag: Jake Runyon

Betrayers

Betrayers

by Bill Pronzini (Forge, 2010)

audiobook read by Nick Sullivan (Bolinda, 2017)

Book cover: “Betrayers” by Bill Pronzini (Forge, 2010); audiobook read by Nick Sullivan (Bolinda, 2017)

The cases themselves are relatively slight, split without overlap between Tamara, Bill, and Jake Runyon. As ever, though, San Francisco emerges as its own gritty, gloomy, sordid kind of character, where life is a struggle and even the non-criminals mostly prove unpleasant.

Endgame

Endgame

by Bill Pronzini (Tom Doherty, 2017)

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Nameless has been in semi-retirement for some years now, sharing his workload and fading ever more into the San Francisco background while colleague Jake Runyon comes to the fore. Having shaped reader expectations, Pronzini here uses the parallel narratives to upend them.

 

 

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