The Big Bout

THE BIG BOUT a Jimmy Soldier Riley Noir Novel from award-winning and bestselling author Michael Lister Listers hard-edged prose ranks with the best of contemporary noir fiction. Publishers Weekly Starred Review of The Big Goodbye. Walk the mean streets of wartime Panama City with Jimmy Soldier Riley a wounded woman-haunted knight errant in Michael Listers resonant new noir series Publishers Weekly calls a promising private detective series set in 1940s Florida and Library Journal says peppered with snappy dialog this hard-boiled mystery by award winner Lister is a swell read. Michael Lister has the world of Florida Panhandle noir all to himself. Tough violent and hard-boiled This novel of obsession and suspense will remind you of Raymond Chandler Graham Greene and why you started reading crime novels in the first place. John Dufresne