Eye of the Cricket
By James Sallis
1997
First Published
4.04
Average Rating
210
Number of Pages
Part of Series
Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.
Avg Rating
4.04
Number of Ratings
272
5 STARS
34%
4 STARS
43%
3 STARS
17%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
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Author
James Sallis
Author · 20 books
James Sallis (born 21 December 1944 in Helena, Arkansas) is an American crime writer, poet and musician, best known for his series of novels featuring the character Lew Griffin and set in New Orleans, and for his 2005 novel Drive, which was adapted into a 2011 film of the same name.
