Sentinels: A Nameless Detective Novel by Bill Pronzini

Sentinels: A Nameless Detective Novel by Bill Pronzini

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Book Description
A “worried mother” job takes “Nameless” to a California backwater, where college student Allison McDowell has disappeared with her mysterious new boyfriend on a drive from Oregon to San Francisco. And behind a simple missing-persons case lies a sinister—and deadly—conspiracy. “'Nameless' is a good man to walk you through the noir landscape.”—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review “'Nameless' has become an American treasure.... A stunning and unique achievement in crime fiction.”—Booklist “One of the best in the mystery-suspense field is Bill Pronzini.”—Washington Post

Reader Reviews
Pronzini's done much better than this, January 19, 2003 Reviewer: Mark McGlone from San Diego, CA USA This is the weakest Nameless detective novel I've read. A couple of college kids go missing. Nameless traces them to a town composed almost entirely of bigots. Without giving anything away, I can only say that once a possible motive for murder is discovered (fairly early in the novel), the rest is slow going. Though Pronzini clearly has plenty of anger towards racism, he has no real insight to offer, and I didn't have much interest in seeing which of his mob of cardboard villains is guilty of murder. For a much better Nameless Detective novel, try Hardcase.