2 books by Jim Nisbet
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Overview: San Francisco writer Jim Nisbet has published thirteen novels, including the acclaimed Lethal Injection. He has also published five volumes of poetry and a nonfiction title. Dark Companion was shortlisted for the 2006 Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in A Mystery Novel, and Windward Passage won the Science Fiction Award of the 2010 San Francisco Book Festival. Ten of his novels have been published in French, six in Italian, and these are constellated by a miscellany of translations into German, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Russian, and Romanian. One of his current projects is the complete translation of Charles Baudelaire’s 1861 edition of Les Fleurs du mal. Another is a new novel, currently titled You Don’t Pencil, which he is considering changing to Stuck on Stupid.
Genre: Mystery, Crime
Snitch World
In the new novel from noir master Jim Nisbet, the Snitch World in question is actually made up of different worlds both old and new, populated with the old-time petty criminals, like Chainbang and Klinger, but also with the modern, including a nouveau femme fatale whose tools of the criminal trade are from the new economy. Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the night turn into crimes done in the light of modern day—all from the glow of a smartphone. Klinger hangs out at the Hawse Hole Bar and Grille, a pretty bad dive where all he really wants is enough to have a cup of coffee, buy some cigarettes, make it through the day, and find a warm, dry place to sleep; all things that can be accomplished by the next easy grift. Little does Klinger know that the rules of the game have changed, and the stakes are higher than he could ever guess or care about. The seemingly simple act of rolling a drunk begins a series of events that get stranger and more complicated by the moment. Jim Nisbet, with his characteristic humor and brilliant prose, creates a world where to trust is to possibly sacrifice all. Snitch World includes a recent interview with Jim Nisbet, in conversation with Patrick Marks, owner of the Green Arcade, talking about writing, publishing, and technology.
The Price of the Ticket
He’s been around the block quite a few times, spending most of his life inside the block. But now, age 52, he’s got an honest job making high-class torture racks and other exquisite playthings for an S&M outfit in downtown San Francisco. His only real problem is he needs a new set of wheels and he’s going to pick one up today, a beat up Ford from one Martin Seam. Sometimes a ticket to Hell only costs $600 . . . nonrefundable, of course.
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