Add Flesh to the Fire - Orrie Hitt

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Résumé :
Orrie Hitt's Add Flesh to the Fire is a raw, fast-moving novel of temptation, violence, and desire from one of the most prolific voices of mid-century paperback fiction. Hitt wrote about people living close to the edge: men and women boxed in by money, lust, resentment, small towns, bad marriages, cheap rooms, and the hard knowledge that one reckless choice can burn through an ordinary life. In Add Flesh to the Fire, Hitt brings his familiar world of pressure, appetite, and moral danger into sharp focus. His characters are not polished heroes or puzzle-solving detectives, but people caught in the heat of wanting too much, trusting too little, and stepping into situations they may not survive. The result is paperback noir with sweat on it: direct, unsentimental, and driven by the uneasy sense that every bargain has a cost and every escape route may lead deeper into trouble. This Black Curtain edition restores a tough example of vintage American crime and noir fiction for readers of hard-boiled suspense, mid-century paperback originals, noir melodrama, crime fiction, and the darker side of postwar American popular storytelling. Hitt's fiction belongs to the world of motels, roadhouses, compromised desire, and fatal decisions, where respectability is thin, temptation is close, and the fire is already spreading....

Sommaire:
Orrie Hitt (1916-1975) was an American novelist best known for his prolific output of paperback-original crime, noir, and exploitation fiction during the 1950s and 1960s. Working at remarkable speed, Hitt wrote novels that captured the rougher edges of postwar American life: failed marriages, small-town pressure, sexual jealousy, class resentment, ambition, corruption, and the desperate compromises made by people with few good choices left.Though often marketed through the lurid covers and sensational copy of the paperback era, Hitt's work has remained of interest to readers and collectors because of its pace, directness, and unsentimental view of ordinary people under pressure. His novels belong to the same broad world of mid-century noir and paperback crime fiction that exposed the darker side of American respectability: the roadhouses, cheap apartments, strained marriages, dangerous affairs, and bad decisions hidden behind the surface of everyday life. For readers of vintage crime fiction, noir melodrama, hard-boiled suspense, and classic paperback originals, Hitt remains a distinctive and highly readable figure....