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Title: Death Will Have Your Eyes
Author: James Sallis
Narrator: William Roberts
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-02-14
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
David was one of an elite corps of spies trained during the Cold War. But those days are gone and for nine years he has been an ordinary citizen...until a phone call in the middle of the night. The only other known survivor of that elite corps has gone rogue. They need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the American landscape.
Critic Reviews:
Sallis is a superb writer and this is his best novel yet!' MICHAEL MOORCOCK
Vivid and strange, with prose like blown glass I was enthralled JONATHAN LETHEM, author of Motherless Brooklyn
Members Reviews:
Wise
A compassionate and wise reflection of life.
Not everyone's cup of tea but that is not a bad thing
James Sallis is not everyone's cup of tea, his work is very much an acquired taste as it is not clear in what he is meaning at times, he does like his diversions of poetry and fine literature, and his plots are sometimes a bit confusing.
That being said, Death will have your eyes, is a novel that is so different it is good.
David is a retired spy who is carving a life for himself in the real world when he is pulled back into the world of espionage when the remaining member of his elite force apparently goes rogue. We get to follow David in a journey across America in his search for the rogue spy.
Sallis does like to wax lyrical about life, people, art, literature, history, food etc. To read a Sallis book (and I have read most of them so far), one has to be prepared to take a journey into a different world.
I must admit that I prefer his Lew Griffin series above this standalone novel but the book was good enough that I finished it quickly (only a short novel) and found it interesting enough to give it three stars.
It's Camus+Conrad+Hammett+Le Carre = an existential spy-hunt
A retired assassin, now an artist, gets a call he has dreaded for years. His former employers are reactivating him to hunt down a former colleague. But in the shadowy world of covert operatives, even the roles of hunter and hunted can shift without warning, and what ensues is a deadly dance along America's highways and through the psyche of a man whose carefully-constructed present has been shattered by his dangerous past.
Though it sounds like yet-another product of an oft-used premise (a la Le Carre), James Sallis's novel has more in common with the psychologically-complex narratives of Conrad, though this book is written in an understated and sparse prose reminiscent of the hard-boiled best of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op. And as David (as we come to know the artist) grapples with the enigma of his own identity, given his secret past and his fragmented present, we get a dream-filled reworking of Camus' The Stranger, even to the resonant (but no less final) climax in the streets of New Orleans.
Think of it as an espionage thriller without all the geopolitical baggage that (more often than not) dates the hefty tomes of Forsythe, Ludlum, and Le Carre. Think of it as a hard-boiled road-mystery with the P.I. recast as a professional assassin. However you think of it, read Death Will Have Your Eyes.
It's a fast-paced death-trip you'll nonetheless enjoy.
Brilliant, existentialist spy story
This is not your average spy story. The characters are so real, they seem to be more than real in comparison with the flat characters in most books of this genre. Sallis writes with a unique style.
