"David Goodis is the quintessential hard-boiled writer, someone for whom noir was not just an aesthetic but a way of life."

--Los Angeles Times

"Surreal, disturbing, frequently brilliant... Nobody does despair like Goodis."

--Time Out

Their marriage on the rocks, James and Cora Bevan flew to Jamaica for a last chance at patching things up. But in the slums of Kingston James found himself fighting for his life--while Cora found her own path to destruction, in the arms of another man.

Available for the first time in more than 50 years, this lost novel by legendary pulp author David Goodis is a stunning, shocking tale of cruelty, danger, desperation...and the possibility of redemption.