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- Formerly a bar owner, a criminal defense investigator, and an English teacher, James Kestrel is now an attorney practicing throughout the Pacific.
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- Though Kestrel’s novel takes a detour from the classic noir tropes, he is faithful to the narrative style, seeding the story with so many Philip Marlowe– and Sam Spade–worthy observations.
Going to War with Noir: On James Kestrel’s “Five Decembers”
Matt Lewis reviews “Five Decembers,” a globetrotting noir from James Kestrel.
Five Decembers by James Kestrel. Hard Case Crime, 2021. 432 pages.
IF YOU’RE LIKE ME, you’re drawn to noir for the grim settings, moral ambiguity, and a cast of characters with cynical worldviews forged from a lifetime of hard knocks — damaged goods, everyone. For all these reasons, noir should be a perfect pairing with war. Where else are the stakes higher and the players so desperate, pushed to extremes in matters that are life or death?
Hell, some of the most notable pioneers of the noir page and stage went through the crucible themselves. Raymond Chandler survived the “war to end all wars” in the trenches of France with the Canadian Expeditionary Force. In another World War I campaign, Dashiell Hammett was rushing around the battlefield aiding the wounded while serving in the Motor Ambulance Corps. Barely a generation later in Wor