num_pages: 192
description: Lew Archer is back, careening down the bloody trail of women who were beaten to death, a murdered cop, and a dead hobo who is the key to a 15-year-old family secret that won't die. "(The) American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald".--New York Times Book Review. Out of print since 1986.
language: English
title: The Instant Enemy.
titlecomplete: The Instant Enemy.
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Pulp, 20th Century, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Noir, Hard Boiled
ratings_count: 957
series: Lew Archer
publisher: Fontana