A tense noir thriller of flight, suspicion, and psychological strain, following a man caught in a web of crime he cannot escape. David Goodis's Nightfall traces the descent of an ordinary man whose life is quietly overtaken by fear and uncertainty after a chance encounter draws him into a dangerous situation. As he attempts to outrun both the truth and those pursuing him, the boundaries between innocence and guilt begin to blur, and the past refuses to remain buried. Written in Goodis's characteristic spare and atmospheric style, the novel builds steadily toward a sense of inevitability, where every decision tightens the trap. Nightfall stands as a representative work of mid-twentieth-century noir fiction, defined by its focus on psychological tension, moral ambiguity, and the fragile nature of identity under pressure.
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David Goodis (1917-1967) was a leading voice in American noir fiction, known for his bleak, psychologically intense novels centered on ordinary individuals drawn into crime and desperation. His work, including Dark Passage and Down There, is marked by a distinctive blend of fatalism, emotional vulnerability, and tightly controlled prose. Goodis's fiction often explores themes of alienation, guilt, and the fragile boundary between innocence and criminality, earning him enduring recognition among readers of hard-boiled and noir literature.
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