David Corbett's Books
Jan.29.2013
The ultimate guide for creating captivating characters
Former private investigator and New York Times Notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in memory. Corbett provides an inventive, inspiring, and vastly entertaining blueprint to all the elements of characterization—from...
Mar.01.2010
Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, he’s stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque, badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old man back,...
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Mar.14.2007
A young American bodyguard tries to protect an honest man from the violent consequences of his principled stand in present-day El Salvador.
"Poetic, romantic, hard-eyed, and brutal. David Corbett, like Robert Stone and Graham Greene before him, is crafting important, immensely thrilling books. BLOOD OF PARADISE is his best yet." --George Pelecanos
Aug.01.2003
The death of an old jazz musician, the axman for legends like Bobby Blue Bland and King Curtis, sounds the blue note of this dazzling novel, narrated in the blunt and vigorous idiom of California noir but full of compassion for marginal people whose rights are trampled upon by power brokers." —NEW YORK TIMES "Notable Book" Listing
". . . one of the three or...
Jul.01.2002
An old school pot smuggler emerges from prison with one goal: to reunite with the love of his life. But she's fallen in with a bad lot, and every effort he makes to liberate her, only further ensnares not just her but himself.
"Corbett thunders out of the gate with this gritty, moving debut . . . . His prose dazzles, cutting across the page with passionate force, articulating...
About David
A recovering Catholic, one-time bar band gypsy, and former private investigator with the San Francisco firm of Palladino & Sutherland, David Corbett has had his work hailed as "the best in contemporary crime fiction—or, if I may be so bold, in...
Connections
Causes David Corbett Supports
Buddhist Peace Fellowship, PEN USA, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, Asociación Pro-Búsqueda, The Center for Victims of...