Joe Gores. (2009). Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Joe Gores. 2009. Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon. Books on Tape.

Joe Gores, Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon. Books on Tape, 2009.

Joe Gores. Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's the Maltese Falcon. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2009.

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When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favors, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer’s wife, Iva; that his tomboyish secretary, Effie Perine, is the only innocent in his life. What we don’t know is how Spade became who he is. Now Spade & Archer completes the picture.
1921: Spade sets up his own agency in San Francisco and clients quickly start coming through the door. The next seven years will see him dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, stowaways, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, bumbling cops, and the illegitimate daughter of Sun Yat-sen. He’ll bring in Archer as a partner, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. He’ll tangle with a villain who never loses his desire to make Spade pay big for ruining what should’ve been the perfect crime. And he’ll fall in love–though it won’t turn out for the best. It never does with dames . . .
Spade & Archer is a gritty, pitch-perfect, hard-boiled novel–the work of a master mystery writer–destined to become a classic in its own right.

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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: "Gores delivers the streets gritty, the action hard-boiled and the feel of late-night mist seeping into your bones. . . . Hammett would have approved."
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   • source: Free Lance-Star
   • content: "A welcome addition to the Sam Spade legend."
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   • source: Los Angeles Times
   • content: "Gores is far and away the best candidate to pull off such a risky endeavor . . . [He] knows Falcon forward and backward . . . Spade & Archer [is] never less than entertaining."
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   • source: James Ellroy
   • content: "A prequel that honors and enhances the legendary volume it enshrines. . . . This novel feels pre-aged more than dated--as vintage Hammett often does to today's readers. . . . This is a very fine novel. Respectful, but too mindful of the source to be reverent--Spade & Archer exalts Dashiell Hammett, codifies his life's work and decorously affirms the master's serious intent."
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   • source: Washington Post Book World
   • content: "A respectable piece of work. . . . [Gores] captures Hammett's razor-sharp dialogue and his lovingly detailed portraits of the streets of San Francisco."
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   • source: Newsday
   • content: "Gores's voice is a pleasure. If it isn't seamless ventriloquism, it's the sound of a writer professing his love for the master who came before."
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   • source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
   • content: "Absorbing. . . . Readers with an appetite for Hammett can feed it with this new novel . . . A fine re-imagining."
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   • source: Rocky Mountain News
   • content: "Gores does a bang-up job . . . [He] knits together a clever and appropriate back story for the iconic detective that makes for a nifty period potboiler all on its own."
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   • source: Dallas Morning News
   • content: "[Gores] is a master storyteller and fun to follow down the fog-bound streets of San Francisco. . . . [Spade & Archer] engages and flows with creepy atmosphere, crisp dialogue and multiple plots, one drawn from Hammett's Pinkerton days, spinning like plates on poles."
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    • source: James Grady
    • content: "No one understands Dashiell Hammett better than Joe Gores, and no one but Joe Gores could have produced such a masterful and faithful rendering of the prequel to The Maltese Falcon. Spade & Archer stands on its own as a taut, engrossing existential crime saga set in San Francisco's vibrant 1920's, and as an evocation of Hammett's style and plots is a triumph. Gores's wondrous talent shines and the shadow it casts of Hammett is smiling."
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    • source: Michael Harvey
    • content: "Seventy-nine years after The Maltese Falcon was first published, the other (gum)shoe drops. It's called Spade & Archer and it's fabulous."
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    • source: Robert Ferrigno
    • content: "It took guts for Joe Gores to attempt a prequel to one of the great American novels. Guts or nuts, had to be one or the other. Lesser writers have attempted to ape Hammett's style and come off like mannered tough guys wearing their big brothers' double-breasted suits, but Gores manages to be both true to Hammett's vision and true to his own considerable gifts. Spade & Archer is a triumph--intricately plotted, deft and strongly written, and perhaps most exciting, he shows us Sam Spade at the beginning of his career, deepening our appreciation of the character. I loved it."
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    • source: Joe R. Lansdale
    • content: "I was amazed at Joe Gore's Spade & Archer. He's got Hammett's style down, and the story he tells is every bit as engrossing as anything Hammett ever wrote. I adored it."
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    • content: Scott Brick fights the urge to apply a Bogart-like tone to this prequel to Dashiell Hammett's classic, THE MALTESE FALCON. It's 1920s San Francisco. Brick's perfect pacing draws the listener into the world of antihero gumshoe Sam Spade, before he hired his secretary and joined forces with Miles Archer. This time, instead of a jewel-encrusted statue of a falcon, it's a treasure of gold that needs to be found, and Spade delivers. Brick's voice wears the gritty dialogue and minimalist description like paint on a flagpole. Lovers of hard-boiled detective adventures will want to stand up and salute. R.O. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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      Starred review from December 15, 2008
      Edgar-winner Gores has not only pulled off the Herculean task of writing a prequel to The Maltese Falcon
      but also created a rip-roaring yarn of his own that will please even the crustiest of Hammett devotees. In 1921, Samuel Spade leaves the Continental Detective Agency and opens up his own office. One of his first cases, which the local cops have bungled, involves the robbery of $125,00 worth of gold coins from the San Anselmo
      , a passenger ship. Gores cuts forward twice, to 1925 and 1928, along the way setting the iconic Spade off on various adventures throughout the Bay Area. The author, who does a brilliant job of bringing Prohibition-era San Francisco to life with street-level detail and a native's perspective, also captures Hammett's spare style and tone perfectly. The only thing missing is a real femme fatale, but Gores, himself a former PI, gives us a number of young beauties to keep Spade busy until Miss Wonderly finally appears at his door. 5-city author tour.

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1921: Spade sets up his own agency in San Francisco and clients quickly start coming through the door. The next seven years will see him dealing with booze runners, waterfront thugs, stowaways, banking swindlers, gold smugglers, bumbling cops, and the illegitimate daughter of Sun Yat-sen. He’ll bring in Archer as a partner, though it was Archer who stole his girl while he was fighting in World War I. He’ll tangle with a villain who never loses his desire to make...

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