Noir Thriller
Jack Holloway
Hard-boiled justice in a city without mercy
Jack Holloway writes hard-boiled noir for readers who like their whiskey neat and their justice rough. His protagonist, the enigmatic Bierce, operates in the shadows of a city that chews up good intentions and spits out broken men. Holloway's prose is lean and mean, stripped of sentimentality but heavy with atmosphere—rain-slicked streets, smoky bars, and conversations where what's unsaid matters more than what's spoken. His stories explore the moral gray zones where cops become criminals and criminals become the only honest men left. For readers who understand that sometimes the small mercies are the only ones we get.
Books by Jack Holloway
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Bierce
Small Mercies: A Bierce Novel
In this city, mercy is a luxury no one can afford. Bierce doesn't do favors. He doesn't make friends. And he definitely doesn't get involved in other people's problems—not anymore. But when an old debt comes calling in the form of a woman with scared eyes and a story that doesn't add up, he finds himself pulled back into the shadows he thought he'd left behind. Someone's been killing the small-time operators, the people who survive in the cracks of the city's underworld. Cops don't care about dead nobodies. But Bierce knows these streets, knows these people, and knows that someone's cleaning house for a reason. The first novel in the Bierce series is a hard-boiled descent into a city where the only justice is the kind you make yourself, and the only mercies are the small ones—a bullet that doesn't miss, a secret that stays buried, a debt finally paid.
Shelf Life: A Bierce Novel
Some secrets have a shelf life. Bierce learns that the hard way when a routine job—tracking down a missing man who owed the wrong people—drags him into a case the city would rather forget. The deeper he digs, the more bodies surface, each one connected to a past everyone swears never happened. In a town where memory is currency and the truth gets buried with the people who knew it, Bierce has to decide how much he's willing to lose to set one record straight. The second novel in the Bierce series is another lean, mean descent into rain-slicked streets and moral gray zones, where the only honest men left are the ones with nothing more to lose, and where every answer costs more than it's worth.