![]() ![]() ![]() “Cain really had few other subjects: forbidden desire, the violence it leads to, the secrets we hide from ourselves and others, the price we pay to hide who we are and what we’ve done.” ![]() “‘Blackmail’ is the perfect title for a James M. The themes in “Blackmail” of betrayal, violence, rough sexuality - and blackmail - echo such Cain classics as “Double Indemnity” and “The Postman Always Rings Twice.” Paul Skenazy, a professor emeritus of at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has written books on Cain and Raymond Chandler among others, called the story minor, but compelling. “Here, Cain serves up vintage noir - complete with gritty dialogue, a damaged war hero, and a young femme fatale who thinks she’s a lot harder than she really is - only to then turn the tale on its head in the very final scene,” Strand managing editor Andrew Gulli wrote in a brief introduction. ![]()
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