Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1) (1929)

by Dashiell Hammett



The Continental Op attempts to purge a town of the gangsters that control it by pitting them against each other.

 


Dashiell Hammett penned a seminal work in the genre of noir fiction with his first book, a lean, stark novel whose hard-edged protagonist adopts amoral means to achieve a moral goal.

 

Dashiell Hammett


The prose is sharp and witty, and the body count is high.

 


The real paradox is how a novel with such a bleak take on human nature can be so much fun to read.



"The Harvest of Death" (Danish)

"Red Harvest" (Portuguese)

"Lead and Blood" (Italian)

"Bloody Harvest" (Hungarian)

"The Red Harvest" (French)

"Red Harvest" (Spanish)

"Red Harvest" (Catalan)

"Scarlet Harvest" (Bulgarian)

"Bloody Harvest" (Finnish)

"Red Harvest" (Greek)


"Red Harvest" (Persian)


"Red Harvest" (Turkish)


"Blood Harvest" (Korean)

"Red Harvest" (German)

"Bloody Harvest" (Polish)

"Bloody Harvest" (Serbian)

"Red Harvest" (Galician)

"Red Harvest" (Arabic)

"Red Harvest" (Vietnamese)


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