Review: Elliott Takes Gold
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 17, 2014
Like bop style jazz expertly played, Garnett Elliot hits all the right notes with this mood driven entry in the Drifter Detective series. Texas PI Jack Laramie pretty much knows what he’ll get when he agrees to look over a potential investment scheme but free booze, hot floozies and decked out bomb shelters are only the beginning. As in the best Fawcett Gold Medal novels, the story plays out fast and hard, leading inexorably in one dark direction.  Elliot’s sentence level smarts are fully on display here with finely tuned prose that slams you you smack into the blazing, staccato hell of a WWII air battle or lays you out flat in a 1950s Brubeck-backed bourbon haze. Highly recommended for fans of hard-boiled action or urban noir!