If we're counting Graham Greene, at least half of his better
known novels--all dark enough with a kind of inverted
romanticism to be counted in some ways as noir--take place in
the tropics--from the Mexico of The Power and the Glory, to
the Haiti of The Comedians and several others in Africa.
Barry Gifford did Port Tropique, and Denis Johnson The Stars
at Noon, which have noir undertones. And one of my all time
favorite recent stand-alone noir's is Richard Ford's The
Ultimate Good Luck, dark and hard-bitten enough to be written
on leather, set almost entirely in Oaxaca. John Shannon
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