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Title: Nemesis
Subtitle: Nameless Detective, Book 38
Author: Bill Pronzini
Narrator: Nick Sullivan
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-09-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Young, newly rich Verity Daniels claims to be receiving threatening demands for money from a mysterious caller. When Jake Runyon agrees to investigate, it seems a relatively simple matter to expose the extortionist by setting a trap for him.
The case, however, is nowhere near as clear-cut as it first appears.
And Verity Daniels is nowhere near the helpless victim she pretends to be.
A series of surprise revelations culminates in Runyon being falsely accused of a crime that never happened, and he and his employers then become the targets of a vicious legal vendetta. A sudden act of violence turns the case upside down, leading to a much more serious charge against Jake.
With the help of partner Tamara Corbin, Nameless (known as Bill to his associates) puts aside the difficult personal issue that has kept him sidelined at home and works to clear both Runyons and the agencys good names. The task requires untangling Verity Daniels bizarre past and present relationships, and before Bill succeeds, he must overcome a deadly threat to his own safety.
Members Reviews:
Nameless here for evermore
The latest Nameless Detective novel by Bill Pronzini picks up a few months after the events of "Hellbox", last year's instalment. If you've read "Hellbox", you'll know that Nameless' wife Kerry went through a traumatic ordeal that mirrored Nameless' own predicament in "Shackles". The event has left Kerry traumatized, and Nameless is just as affected, waking up in the middle of the night from nightmares that bring his own ordeal back most vividly. As a result, Nameless has gone on a more permanent retirement from his detective agency, being involved as more of a consultant now.
This gives control of the agency to Tamara Corbin and Jake Runyon, Nameless' partners. As the new novel, "Nemesis", opens, Jake goes to the home of Verity Daniels. She's a relatively young woman who recently inherited a fortune, but apparently someone has it in for her. This mysterious person has been calling her and making threatening extortion demands. Jake agrees to take the case, but right off the bat something about Verity seems odd. She seems to be in some sort of trouble, and yet she's oddly uncooperative and jeopardizes the whole operation. Jake begins to investigate Verity Daniels more thoroughly, and that's about all I dare reveal about the book.
The only unsurprising twist in Nemesis is the very first one, and it takes Jake Runyon a while to figure it out. To be fair, he berates himself for not having seen it before, but it's the only truly predictable moment, but I don't think it was ever meant to be a major shock. After this point, so much stuff goes wrong and the plot twists and turns constantly. Every time it seems like the worst has happened, something even worse happens. It makes for compelling, exciting reading: I read this book in only two days.
I really like the characters Bill Pronzini has created, and here the book is divided into three sections, each section following the actions of one of his main characters: Jake, Tamara, and Nameless (in that order). Of course, the Nameless Detective is not so nameless anymore: we've known for several books now that his name is Bill, and when his section of the novel begins, it's called "Bill" instead of "Nameless" or having no name.
