Death Will Have Your Eyes, James Sallis
Death Will Have Your Eyes, James Sallis
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Death Will Have Your Eyes
A Novel about Spies

Author: James Sallis

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 4 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/15/2013

Synopsis

David, as hes currently known, was a member of an elite corps of spies trained during the coldest days of the Cold War. But those days are long gone, and for almost a decade he has been out of the rat race and working as a sculptor. Then a phone call in the middle of the night awakens him: the only other survivor from that elite corps has gone rogueand they need David to stop him. What ensues is an existential cat-and-mouse game played out across the great board that is the American landscape and through the diners and motels that dot the terrain like green plastic houses on a Monopoly board. In this haunting and visceral yarn, James Sallis investigates the cynical, violent, sophisticated world of modern espionage with authority and originality.

About James Sallis

James Sallis has published more than a dozen novels, several books of musicology, multiple collections of short stories, poems, and essays, and more. His works have been short-listed for the Anthony, Nebula, Edgar, Shamus, and Gold Dagger awards. Sallis is best known for his novel Drive, which was made into an award-winning motion picture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Conor on November 06, 2013

After having read Drive and its underwhelming sequel Driven, I had come to think of James Sallis as a writer of sparse and short crime fiction who succeeded most in moments of violence or action. Death Will Have Your Eyes proves that impression incorrect. Whilst Sallis, in this earlier novel, still......more

Goodreads review by Adam on December 05, 2009

Death will have your Eyes is a spy story, shadowy exploration of identity, and a road trip filled with perfect miniature descriptions of characters and places, sudden violence, eerie and surreal imagery, and melancholy. The plot is confusing and complex with shade like characters fading into each ot......more

Goodreads review by Tanuj on June 20, 2021

Typical Sallis Americana. The plot is even more aleatory than it usually is in a Sallis novel, which makes this one seem at times like the production of a tired man.......more

Goodreads review by Jeremy on January 25, 2018

This book of prose had some spy story in it. The book's content had three main recurring events: sightseeing on a long roadtrip, flashbacks to memories and feelings along the way, fight scenes. These events occurred back and forth, both forward and backward in time. Existential reflections intersper......more

Goodreads review by Owain on October 16, 2013

An existential, espionage, road novel. what's not to like? I love the way Sallis takes what would normally be a fast paced, join the dots, plot heavy thriller and sort of slows it right down and makes you notice what would normally be little more than set dressing. Chuck in a reactivated agent with......more

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