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Two lovers plot a daring heist in this atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream.
Post-war Riverton has little to offer Richard, a mild-mannered loner working a dead-end job at Eddy & Dowd Safe Deposit Company. When he meets Marlon, a smooth-talking confidence man, Richard finds his partner in crime. Passions ignite between the men, and together, they hatch a plan to rob the vault at Eddy & Dowd-a once-in-a-lifetime score that will fund their escape to the Big City, where they can live and love as they desire.
Their plans are complicated by Gloria, a recent divorcée scheming her own route to wealth; Frank Todd, a disgraced ex-cop desperate to restore his reputation; and the paranoid Mr. Dowd, a tycoon scrambling to hold onto his crumbling empire. As Richard and Marlon race towards their destiny, reckless violence threatens both their plans and their devotion to each other.
Inspired by the iconic lexicon and unsparing storytelling of Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith, The Longest Death weaves a twisted morality tale about what it means to love someone at any cost.
Two lovers plot a daring heist in this atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream.
• CINEMATIC AND ATMOSPHERIC: Author Kevin Jagernauth's background as a film critic and script consultant lends a decidedly cinematic feel to The Longest Death in the vein of classic films like Double Indemnity and Drive
• CONTEMPORARY SENSIBILITY: Classic elements of noir literature like crime, sexuality, moral ambiguity, and human fallibility are given a twenty-first century update, making The Longest Death feel fresh and thrilling.
• QUEERING NOIR: Both a classic heist story and a sensitive chronicle of life at the margins of the American dream, this atmospheric noir centers queer love at its wildest, grittiest, and most ambitious.
Post-war Riverton has little to offer Richard, a mild-mannered loner working a dead-end job at Eddy & Dowd Safe Deposit Company. When he meets Marlon, a smooth-talking confidence man, Richard finds his partner in crime. Passions ignite between the men, and together, they hatch a plan to rob the vault at Eddy & Dowd-a once-in-a-lifetime score that will fund their escape to the Big City, where they can live and love as they desire.
Their plans are complicated by Gloria, a recent divorcée scheming her own route to wealth; Frank Todd, a disgraced ex-cop desperate to restore his reputation; and the paranoid Mr. Dowd, a tycoon scrambling to hold onto his crumbling empire. As Richard and Marlon race towards their destiny, reckless violence threatens both their plans and their devotion to each other.
Inspired by the iconic lexicon and unsparing storytelling of Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith, The Longest Death weaves a twisted morality tale about what it means to love someone at any cost.
Two lovers plot a daring heist in this atmospheric noir about fate and fortune on the fringes of the American dream.
• CINEMATIC AND ATMOSPHERIC: Author Kevin Jagernauth's background as a film critic and script consultant lends a decidedly cinematic feel to The Longest Death in the vein of classic films like Double Indemnity and Drive
• CONTEMPORARY SENSIBILITY: Classic elements of noir literature like crime, sexuality, moral ambiguity, and human fallibility are given a twenty-first century update, making The Longest Death feel fresh and thrilling.
• QUEERING NOIR: Both a classic heist story and a sensitive chronicle of life at the margins of the American dream, this atmospheric noir centers queer love at its wildest, grittiest, and most ambitious.