Espionage adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with - this classic noir will
have you gripped from start to finishJulie Guilles is in trouble. She's fled her home in
Occupied France for a seedy neighbourhood in New York and has been laying low - but not low
enough. Because now she has the Gestapo the FBI and her shady Uncle the Duc de Guille all on
her tail and her options are running out. Whispers of the Blackbirder reach her - a sinister
figure who for the right price can promise safe passage across the border to New Mexico.
Finding the Blackbirder is her only chance of escape - but what if the Blackbirder doesn't want
to be found?'Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master
of mid-century noir' New York Review of Books
