This "sort of detective story" by the New York Times bestselling novelist offers "farcical, reflective, luscious, gritty [and] stylish entertainment" ( The New York Times).
As a Boy Scout, Johnny Lundgren was given the nickname Warlock. Now, at forty-two years of age, Johnny has decided to take up that moniker again. It might be an odd name for an unemployed business executive living in Traverse City, Michigan. But perhaps it fits his new job working for an eccentric doctor as a personal trouble-shooter and private investigator.
Warlock suddenly finds himself on a range of bizarre assignments—everything from battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan to investigating his employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West. A comedy with one foot in the abyss, Warlock is "a rich and sparkling novel" by one of America's most critically acclaimed authors.
"Contemporary macho in a funhouse mirror . . . a hybrid born out of Faulkner's dark hero of Satoris and all the Buster Keaton comedy that we love."— Los Angeles Herald Examiner
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Praise for Warlock
"Once again, with uncanny wit, outrageous humor, consistent inventiveness and perception as slick, quick and lethal as an ice pick, Harrison demonstrates why he is the dean of that school of contemporary American novelists that also includes Thomas McGuane and Richard Brautigan."-The Sacramento Bee
"[Jim Harrison is] a writer with immortality in him."-Sunday Times (UK)
"Dashiell Hammett's low-rent realism made the mystery novel fun to read. Warlock demonstrates that it is equally enjoyable to spoof."-Time
"Contemporary macho in a funhouse mirror . . . a hybrid born out of Faulkner's dark hero of Satoris and all the Buster Keaton comedy that we love."-Los Angeles Herald Examiner
"Warlock will not let Harrison's following or reputation down . . . Intense sensitivity to the strangely fragile yet resistant constitution of the human psyche. A tour de force."-Booklist
