Joe Gores: Dead Man (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
Once Eddie Dain had a life: a beautiful wife, a happy young son and a thriving business catching soft-core bad guys by computer. Then he hung onto an odd-looking case and made a mysterious enemy - one whose calling cards were two men with shotguns.

Now Eddie is reborn - as a dead man. Known by the single name of Dain, he pumps his body and his psyche as he follows a trail of sweaty white-collar crime to the steamy Louisiana bayous. Here, in this torrid landscape, is a woman on the run who can lead him to what he wants more than anything: the man who took everything from him...

Joe Gores: Dead Man. Orion Books / The Murder Room, ISBN: 9781471917608 (February, 2015), eBook, 0.63 MB (240 p.),£4.99.

Joe Gores: Dead Man (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
Once Eddie Dain had a life: a beautiful wife, a happy young son, and a thriving business catching soft-core bad guys by computer. Then he hung on to an odd-looking case and made a mysterious enemy -- one whose calling cards were two men with shotguns.

Now Eddie is reborn -- as a dead man. Known by the single name of Dain, he pumps up his body and his psyche as he follows a trail of sweaty white-collar crime to the steamy Louisiana bayou. Here, in this torrid landscape, is a woman on the run who can lead him to what he wants more than anything: the man who took everything from Eddie Dain...

In Dead Man Joe Gores returns to the hard, lean style of his acclaimed novels Come Morning and Interface -- in a stunning tale of crime and revenge.

"THIS IS ONE AUTHOR WHO CAN WRITE WITH A VENGEANCE. DEAD MAN IS SUSPENSEFUL, AND ITS VIOLENCE IS GRUESOMELY INGENIOUS." -- New York Newsday
"GORES PENS HIS TOUGHEST AND DARKEST NOVEL YET." -- Playboy

JOE GORES was a San Francisco private detective before he became an award-winning screenwriter and author. The creator of the famous DKA detective agency series, Gores lives and writes in northern California.

Cover design by Jackie Merri Meyer
Cover illustration by Jeff Fitz-Majorice

Joe Gores: Dead Man. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0446403911 (September, 1994), 261 p., $5.50.

Joe Gores: Dead Man (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
From the smooth patter of a con man to a savage street corner killing, Joe Gores knows firsthand the world he writes about. Now the former private eye and three-time Edgar Award winner returns to the classic form of his acclaimed novels Come Morning and Interface, in a brilliantly paced tale of suspense and violence that ranges from Northern California to the Louisiana bayous.

DEAD MAN
Life is a wondrous game for twenty-eight-year-old Eddie Dain. There's phone chess with his beautiful wife, Marie. There's the joy of his three-year-old son. There's his career using software to ferret out soft-core bad guys without ever leaving his computer. But when Eddie decides that a seemingly accidental death was no accident at all, it all blows up in his face.

A new and shadowy enemy sends out two killers with shotguns. When they are through with him, Eddie has to be reborn. As a dead man.

He's dead to joy, dead to his past. Loveless and obsessed, he goes by the single name of Dain, lives with a cat who won't purr, and thumbs through a bloodstained copy of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Building up his body and an arsenal of lethal skills that Eddie never had, Dain hires himself out as a manhunter -- because somewhere out there in an underworld of criminals and contract killers are the two men who destroyed his life.

Dain's break comes in Chicago, leads him to a beautiful stripper in New Orleans, and plunges him into the steaming swamps of the Louisiana bayou country. There, Dain will get his chance to separate truths from lies, traitors from friends, the living from the dead...

JOE GORES has received the coveted Edgar Allan Poe Award in three separate categories: Best First Novel, Best Short Story, and Best TV Series Segment. He is the author of nine previous novels, including the Edgar-nominated 32 Cadillacs and Come Morning, as well as numerous screenplays and teleplays based on his twelve-year experience as a San Francisco private detective. His 1975 bestseller Hammett became the 1983 film produced by Francis Ford Coppola. Mr. Gores lives in Northern California.

Jacket design and illustration by John Mattos

Joe Gores: Dead Man. A Novel of Suspense. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 089296541X (December, 1993), 260 p., $18.95.