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New York City's hot-wired East Village: From Avenue A to Avenue D, Alphabet City is a magnet for all-night revelers, actors, musicians, and artists. But it's also a lair for desperate hustlers, con men, and last-chance addicts.
Just part of the scene East of A.
Payton Sherwood knows that scene. He lives it daily. But Payton also lives by a creed derived from the white-knight heroes of Golden Age detective fiction. And like those renowned hardboiled private eyes, he is riddled with loss--the loss of an old love who still exists in daydreams, and the loss of a city he barely recognizes.
Payton returns to the Lower East Side after a short absence to find himself an outsider. When he takes a wrong turn on a side street, he stumbles into trouble in the form of three bull-necked heavies and a tough sixteen-year-old runaway named Gloria Manlow. After taking a savage beating, Payton is robbed of his Rolex watch and left bleeding on the sidewalk.
For Payton, trying to retrieve his three-thousand-dollar wristwatch has its perils. So does tracking Gloria, whose trail zigzags from a stray dog to a psycho boyfriend to an ice-hearted killer.
Following clues both hot and cold, Payton winds his way through Alphabet City--in and out of trendy after-hour dives, across barrio tenements and vacant lots where the homeless camp, and finally on a descent into a nightclub in a defunct church: the Hellhole. Here, the shadows that frighten aren't those that shade the street, but rather the soul. Payton's dusk-to-dawn nightmare on the wild side is about to begin--and nothing will stop it but death.
There may be millions of stories in the Naked City, but few are as riveting as the one Russell Atwood tells. A black-lit, neo-noir urban thriller, East of A is a bloody valentine to classic detective fiction--and an original hard-drive narrative so seductive and compelling it takes the reader hostage and never lets go.
- Sales Rank: #4350767 in Books
- Published on: 1999-02-09
- Released on: 1999-02-09
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 6.00" w x 1.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 211 pages
Amazon.com Review
Urban streets don't get much meaner than in the alphabet-street stew of New York City's Lower East Side. But that's where private eye Payton Sherwood plies his trade, a clean-living moralist in a world of drugged-out freakazoids.
Coming home late to an empty refrigerator after a court appearance in Syracuse, the slyly self-mocking Payton ("still in my dark blue suit, narrow maroon tie, and shiny black shoes") decides to pop downstairs to his favorite all-night deli for a jug of milk and a box of Cheerios. But the store has gone out of business during his nine-day absence; he's forced to wander farther east for his needs and winds up having the stuffing kicked out of him when he stops to defend a street girl from attack by a trio of bozos. Worse yet, the girl comes back to steal his Rolex! Highly motivated and mightily pissed, Sherwood goes after the girl and ends up in a former church, now a nightclub called the Hellhole. The real fun of Russell Atwood's first (but obviously not last) mystery is watching him ring all the changes he can on the traditional noir icons without leaning on the crutches of camp or disrespect. --Dick Adler
From Publishers Weekly
Readers nostalgic for the shabby PI with the manly integrity of Bogart will cheer the debut of Atwood and his '90s noir hero, whose turf includes the stained sidewalks, perilous tenements and pierced, tattooed denizens of New York's Lower East Side. Payton Sherwood is a marginally employed gumshoe with a yen for justice and a healthy dash of self-deprecating charm. While making a food run late one night in his East Village neighborhood, he saves a young street girl from three toughs, only to have her steal his watch and split after the thugs leave him in a puddle of his own blood. A quick search turns up the girl's beeper and her name: Gloria. Payton vows to track her down, retrieve his watch?and find out why Gloria was being hunted by the goons. The beeper leads Payton to a string of idiosyncratic East Villagers, all involved in the interconnected underworlds of dance-club culture and drug trafficking, where fierce loyalties are met with equally fierce betrayals. Payton's dogged (and unpaid) footwork brings him to the murderous vortex of the club-kid drug ring, a church-cum-nightclub called the Hellhole, where Atwood sets up a devilishly classic denouement. The narration pulses with verve and threat, and through Payton's vividly rendered voice readers will know the sweat, lust and fear. Author tour.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Debut thriller set within the neo-noir confines of New Yorks East Village. The East Village is not what most people would consider a nice place to raise a family, and p.i. Payton Sherwood is no ones idea of a good family man. It comes as no surprise to him that he loses his child-custody suit in Syracuse and has to head home to Second Avenue alone and broke. What does throw him is having his gold Rolex stolen by the teenage girl he defends against three street thugs looking for heroin in the shadows of St. Marks Church. Some gratitude. But Sherwood has his ways: The next day he returns to the scene of the crime and finds a telephone beeper dropped by the girl in the course of the mle, and thats all he needs to start the wheels rolling. It turns out that the girl is one Gloria Manlow, a homeless kid from Vermont who has made her way through most of the rock clubs, art studios, NYU dorms, and heroin dens of that part of town. Sherwood gets his Rolex back in short order, but by then the investigation has taken on a life of its own, several corpses already down and a few more on the way. Ordinarily, Sherwood doesnt go in for pro bono work, but this case has too many loose ends to resist. Who were the skinheads Sherwood saw shaking Gloria down for smack? Who killed the German photographer Gloria posed for? Who runs Ellis Dee productions, and what did Glorias dead boyfriend Jimmy have to do with them? Sherwood goes at it like a pro, asking the right questions and faking the right answers until hes in it as deeply as Gloria herself. Which may have been his strategy all along. Good suspense, plenty of action, and great local color add up to a winner. How long before Payton rides again? -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Most helpful customer reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Middling First Detective Novel
By Brian D. Rubendall
Russel Atwood's "East of A," in which the author introduces us to New York City private detective Payton Sherwood, is a well written book that has many of the elements (lonilesness, cynicism, street-wise attitude) that make for great private detective fiction. Unfortunately, it is all put into service of a story that is just not terribly compelling, particularly if it is meant to be the first in a series starring Sherwood.
The plot is fairly straightforward. Sherwood is beaten up by a trio of street thugs when he attempts to stop them from attacking a runaway teenage girl. No good deed goes unpunished, and while he's lying in the street the girl steals his Rolex watch, the only valuable thing he owns. After cleaning himself up, Sherwood goes in search of the watch. That premise doesn't exactly compell one to keep reading, and it was only Atwood's light and easy prose that kept me interested.
The case takes some unexpected turns when Sherwood discovers that the thugs are after the girl because they believe the girl stole a new designer drug from their boss, a wealthy eccentric dance club owner. From there Sherwood encounters a trail of murder and deceit. The New York street scenes are well described and the characters that inhabit them are fairly well drawn (except, curiously, for the girl, who the reader never really gets to know). Unltimately, the story just doesn't amount to all that much, though there is one grisly scene in which two men fall out a high window that is quite shocking and shows that Atwood has potential as a storyteller. He just needs more scenes like that one.
Overall, "East of A" is not a bad novel, just not a terribly memorable one.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Payton's debut novel scores a TD in the East Village
By A Customer
After testifying in a child custody case in Syracuse for the last nine days, private investigator Payton Sherwood buses home to New York City. When he reaches his office-home in the East Village, he feels life is good because no one broke into his house. Without changing form his suit, Payton goes to the nearest convenience store to buy some milk and cereal. On the way back, he intercedes when three thugs accost a teenage girl. For being a Good Samaritan, the three punks kick him from head to toe.
When he regains consciousness, Payton realizes that his $3500 gold Rolex watch was stolen during the incident. Besides the principle of the thing, Payton wants just about his only thing of value returned. He traces the girl, who turns out to be a homeless runaway named Gloria Manlow. Though he catches up to her by journeying through the bowels of the city, he soon finds himself working a much bigger case that places his life in jeopardy.
EAST OF A is well written urban Noir that brings alive the eats Village and surrounding neighborhoods of Manhattan. Payton is a great new entry in the sleuthing world (he has previously appeared in a short story). The story line is quirky and different. Fans will want more works from Russell Atwood, starring Payton in the city.
Harriet Klausner
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Fast, funny, lean and mean
By A Customer
When you first meet Payton Sherwood, the hero of East of A, he seems to be stepping right into the footsteps of every great PI that has come before him. But Sherwood quickly steps out on his own and takes a new path that's fresh and yet still loyal to the past heroes of PI legend. With an expert eye for the East Village of New York City, East of A's author Atwood knows his turf and he knows how to show it off. If one paragraph makes the East Village seem like the kind of place that would be fun to visit, the next paragraph makes you want to run, run, run for your life. The characters are wild and full of surprises, and yet still very real. With all the suspense and drama, Atwood takes the time to give his main character Payton Sherwood, a depth and charm that pulls the reader in. Not a macho tough guy, Sherwood is the kind of hero that's closer to us all, and so we're a little more fearful for him. There is also a great deal of humor in East of A. Something that doesn't always work in the dark world of the PI novel, the humor here fits right in. It fits. That's what makes East of A so good. Atwood's characters, locale, story, and humor all fit perfectly together. And it's a good fit that makes for a great read. Can't wait for the next Payton Sherwood adventure! But who should play Payton in the movie?
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