Dry, dark and spare. We see a hard-drinking detective Lew Griffin at three different points in his life, looking for someone. Each time, as he makes his way around New Orleans (every bit a character in these stories), I get a sense of loneliness and a dry sense of humour from this character.
James Sallis uses very little text to say a lot about Lew and the people he meets along his way in each of the three, tightly written short stories.