Manifesto for the Dead - Hardcover

"A dark and brooding novel... Stansberry's prose is an eerie echo of a dead man's style. And his insights into a writer's anxiety about losing his identity to his characters would make Thompson's own skin crawl."
--The New York Times

"Fascinating, beautifully written.... Thompson is alive on the page, and the questions that Stansberry poses about the nature of noir seem part of Thompson's own disintegrating persona... an enviable achievement."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Stansberry buries a sense of cosmic foreboding in nearly every line. Through a poetics of menace that at times takes on a positively hallucinatory beauty, Stansberry exposes the Manichaean heart of noir."
--LA Weekly