Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
(By Steve S. Saroff)
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An Amazon top 100. Critics and reviewers called Paper Targets " Wonderfully written," "An astonishing novel," and "Flat-out genius."
Enzi is a runaway with in-demand skills. Kaori is an artist who communicates with her drawings. When Kaori is involved in a shocking crime, Enzi questions everything he has ever done. Based on the true events of one of the world's largest criminal frauds.
Praise for Paper Targets:
"A wonderfully written thriller " - Kirkus Reviews
"This book is flat-out genius, the best novel I’ve read in years." - Martin Clark, Author of The Substitution Order
"An astonishing novel. Highly recommended to everyone, especially those interested in noir, art, a blazing narration, and all of our deeply unsettling subconsciouses. Saroff also seems capable of laying down the perfect sentence on command." - Michael Fitzgerald, author of Radiant Days and founder of Submittable
" his spare prose seems designed to step out of the way but is arresting in itself." - Kirkus Reviews
"Readers will be immediately invested in Enzi's fate, and Saroff expertly intensifies the plot through unfolding backstories and quiet tension. Lyrical yet succinct, Saroff's first-person narrative is well crafted, granting readers an inside view of Enzi's sentiments." - Publishers Weekly
"Wow isn't enough. Just amazing." - Russ Fletcher, Publisher of MATR
"It's rare to find a thriller and crime story that also embraces such literary foundations; but Paper Targets represents art in and of itself." - Midwest Book Review
From the Publisher:
Near the beginning of Paper Targets, the enigmatic narrator, Enzi, says, "Every lie is a bent wheel, something that wobbles no matter how many attempts to straighten it and then keeps wobbling right up to its last hard turn" and foreshadows his wrongs that Enzi will soon try to undo. And what wrongs he has done. Some for love. Some for money. And this doing and undoing makes quite the story.
The novel reads like a true confession from someone double-cursed; he has skills that make anonymous fortunes, and he as the ability to find love that makes sorrow. These combine into a fast-moving and unique story. But what grabbed me on the first read of the manuscript was the writing. Stark and emotional and heart-breakingly clear. For a few pages, I wondered to what genre the story belonged. Then I didn't care because all I wanted to know was what would be revealed on each page turn.
This is a story of modern crime set in Montana with connections to the money world of New York, Seattle, and London. The poetic descriptions of Montana blend and flow easily -- with only the slightest of wobbles -- into the descriptions of technology and cityscapes of grey concrete.
Near the middle of Paper Targets a chapter concludes with an observation and an instruction: "Like the entertainment of a wreck on a sharp curve - that wheel which finally wobbled off its axle - the flashing lights say, 'slow down and look at what went wrong.' If you have come this far with me, touch what is near to you now, as I touch this paper." I am glad Steve S. Saroff touched his paper (and I pictured Enzi writing in one of his small notebooks), and I was happy to hold and read this marvelous novel.”
