Dark Companion

FE/FP Signed by Nisbet on the title page. As new hardcover in similar dust jacket, now wrapped in Brodart. Nisbet's writing used the conventions of crime fiction and noir to support a dark, cerebral, and harrowing narrative, laced with humor and carried off in unexpected directions by exuberant wordplay. He incorporated themes as wide-ranging as sailing, particle physics, mathematics, ancient Rome, modern jazz, and urban subculture.This book shortlisted for the Dashiel Hammett Award is the noir classic of BJ Rolf, a quiet man who enjoys his gardening and family until he is downsized from his chemistry job and gets entangled with a ner-do-well, drug-dealing neighbor. 144 pages.