Everyone is trying to game the system and skim as much off the top as possible … It is precisely style and atmosphere that give An Honest Living so much electricity and dimension. “Murphy’s lonely, misanthropic narrator fitted with the soul of a poet and the ethics of a dice thrower…Following the rules of the noir genre, the would-be detective is ruled by the stars of pride and lust, determined to discover who duped him even as he finds himself inexplicably drawn to an enigmatic femme fatale, the real wife … As with Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, the title of this novel is a joke-there’s no such thing as an honest living.
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