Has anybody read this? It's getting some major write-ups
(from The New Yorker, Salon, etc.).
Here's how the Salon review begins:
"Back in the day, the best hard-boiled detective fiction
provided readers with state-of-the-art prose style as well as
cheap thrills. But as decades went by, the style of Chandler
and Hammett hardened even further and became a cliché® Recent
incarnations of the noir voice (James Ellroy, for one) seem
compulsive and symptomatic rather than fluid, like a
Touretter mimicking a prizefighter's moves.
"Peter Abraham's latest crime novel -- praised by Joyce Carol
Oates in the pages of the New Yorker, no less -- points the
way out of this hall of mirrors. "Oblivion" is written lean
and sleek and undentable as titanium, but the experience it
describes is anything but rock solid. Nick Petrov, a tough,
Russian-born detective (son of a form KGB agent) is so good
he's been played in a TV movie by Armand Assante. The film
dramatized his most famous case, in which Petrov nabbed a
serial killer. This is a man who knows what he's doing --
until he feels a "penny-sized" headache right behind his
right eyebrow and suddenly finds himself talking nonsense
about Babar."
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