They say everybody has a double. What if yours is hunting you?

A cynical detective. A dangerous beauty. Estranged twins, one a recluse, the other a playboy — at least one of them insane.

McBride is an aging Boston private eye. Sylvia is his threatening and seductive partner. Gray hires them to find his brother before his brother finds him. The only clue is an unsourced photo of the twin in the stands at a Bruins game — or is it Gray himself? Increasingly convinced their client is either insane or playing a double game — or both — McBride and Sylvia chase dead-ends across Boston, New York, and hockey — and when Gray's doppelganger finally turns up (with the equally colorful name of Brown), Gray vanishes. The Brown version is every bit as odd as the Gray: but where Gray is paranoid, rootless, and secretive, Brown lives amidst an endless party in a suburban mansion. McBride arranges a meet — and that's when the cat-and-mouse game really gets weird.

In The Brothers Brown & Gray, Gary Glass twists noir fiction into strange new shapes that make for compulsive reading.

Get it — and clear your schedule. You won't want to put it down.