All Backs Were Turned
Publisher: New Vessel Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781939931122
Subjects: Fiction, general
Description: "In this novel of breathtaking tension and sweltering love, two desperate friends on the edge of the law -- one of them tough and gutsy, the other small and scared -- travel to the southern Israeli city of Eilat to find work. There, Dov Ben Dov, the handsome native Israeli with a reputation for causing trouble, and Israel, his sidekick, stay with Ben Dov's recently married younger brother, Little Dov, who has enough trouble of his own. Local toughs are encroaching on Little Dov's business, and he enlists his older brother to drive them away. It doesn't help that a beautiful German widow named Ursula is rooming next door. What follows is a story of passion, deception, violence, and betrayal, all conveyed in hardboiled prose reminiscent of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, with a cinematic style that would make Bogart and Brando green with envy"--Back cover.