"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian  Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social  inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his  wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And  what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the  Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too),  from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or  two."
 
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"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian 
Communist Party!) that crime fiction is way of talking about social 
inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties (not to 
mention dope, guns, f*cking, and imperialism) in his wonderfully noir 
trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does 
for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more
 than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been
 there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher of PM Press/noir enthusiast
 
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