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By Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
Hard
Case Crime
October 2007
ISBN: 0-8439-5776-X
WARNING! THIS MAY BE
THE MOST
SHOCKING BOOK YOU EVER READ!
Max Fisher
used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant
and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself
as a hip-hop crack dealer and Angela's back in Ireland, hooking up
with a would-be record-setter…in the field of serial killing. Will
their paths cross again? What do you think?
From the evil
geniuses who brought you Bust comes a roller-coaster ride of
suspense, mayhem and vicious fun that'll make you reluctant ever to
open your mail again.
Don't say we didn't warn you.
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First publication anywhere!
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A sequel to the authors' acclaimed first collaboration, BUST
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Bruen and Starr have been nominated for or won virtually every
major mystery award
"Vulgar, demented, violent, twisted,
amoral, and hilarious...some of the funniest dialogue this side of
Elmore Leonard." — Otto Penzler, The New York Sun
A loose follow-up to Ken Bruen and Jason Starr's superb 2006
Bust (with a couple of the same characters),
Slide is all genially ferocious menace. (Grade: A-)" —
Entertainment Weekly
"You want to read a good, mean book? Grab this new
paperback thriller." — Entertainment Weekly
(on-line)
"Bruen and Starr have concocted a wild...and very
funny ode to mindless violence, drugs, down-and-dirty sex, and
self-delusion...There's good reason to believe Bruen and Starr had
as much fun reading Slide as crime fans will have reading
it." — Booklist
"(A) dark, twisted,
no-holds-barred tale that hits all the noir buttons and then some.
Events violent, bloody, crude and hilarious unfold at a rapid,
almost stream-of-consciousness pace." — Publishers
Weekly
"Slide is slick. With the follow up to
last year's Bust, Ken Bruen and Jason Starr have raised the
bar." — Independent Crime
"Slide is a masterpiece of dark comedy
taken to side-splitting limits that left this reviewer dizzy with
glee. Not to be missed if you like your noir flavored with a heavy
dose of wry comedy." — Pulp Fiction Reviews
"Like those miscreants who populate Elmore
Leonard novels, Slide's characters are the slimiest of the
slime, yet somehow an utter joy to follow....For a crude, rude and
tastefully tasteless trip with society’s underbelly, Slide
is the ride of the season." —
Bookgasm
"This violent, bloody, crude, funny,
twisted, no-holds-barred tale ... is noir at its best." —
Bookbitch "What makes Slide a great book, of course,
is the frenetic combination of Bruen and Starr...Put them together
in a room, and just like the back jacket says, Slide
may be the most shocking book you'll ever read. It may also be one
of the best." — BookReporter
"In the
character of Angela, (Bruen and Starr) have created a fiery
Irishwoman who may be one of the best female antiheroes ever. Think
Barbara Stanwyck meets Linda Fiorentino in The Last
Seduction, except much, much tougher. —
BookReporter Reviewer Picks 2007   By Ken Bruen and Jason
Starr
Hard Case Crime May, 2006 ISBN:
0843955910 5 IMPORTANT LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY
READING BUST:
- When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a
psychopath.
- Drano is not the best tool for getting rid of a dead
body.
- Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure.
- A curly blond wig isn’t much of a disguise.
- Secrets can kill.
"Tense,
sometimes brutal, often funny [and] vividly fresh...This first-time
collaboration between Irish hard-boiler Bruen (The Guards) and
Brooklyn noirist Starr (Cold Caller) reads seamlessly--and
mercilessly." -Entertainment Weekly
"Two of
the crime fiction world's brightest talents, Ken Bruen and Jason
Starr, join forces for one of the year's most dark satisfying and
electric noir novels....One of the top guilty pleasures of the
year." -The Chicago Sun-Times
"A full-tilt, rocking
homage to noir novels of the 1950s, taking full advantage of the
neo-pulp Hard Case Crime imprint...A seamless blend of Bruen's
dead-on Irish underworld and Starr's hellish vision of the Big
Apple, Hard Case's latest release is smart, trashy fun, fulfilling
ably the series' irresistible promise." - Publisher's
Weekly (Starred Review)
"Fasten your seat
belts, and enjoy the bumpy ride of double- and triple-crosses,
blackmail, and murder. If Quentin Tarantino is looking for another
movie project, this novel with its mix of shocking violence and
black comedy would be the perfect candidate. Highly recommended as a
terrific summer read." - Library Journal (Starred
Review)
"Seamless in its crafting, Bust is an
absolute winner." -January Magazine
"Two of the
century's best thriller writers have joined forces to bring a
postmodern twist to the black heart of noir fiction. Grade:
A." - Rocky Mountain News
"The prose reads
like a dream. Fast paced and bursting with energy...Hard Case Crime
have released some of the best new novels of the past few years.
They've given us some amazing reprints of classic crime. But this
book, Bust, has just upped the ante once more." -Crime Scene
Scotland
"Bust is an abosolute gem of a novel--a
must-read." -The Barnes and Noble Review
"Crosses
and double-crosses, miscalculations and blunders, and plenty of dead
bodies...For those who like the bungling-criminal genre, this is
good fun." -Booklist
"It's what all noir books
should aspire to be...a fantastic book that shouldn't be
missed." -I Love a Good Mystery
"An unholy alliance
between Ken Bruen and Jason Starr, two modern masters of noir
fiction....I haven't read a book made me feel this entertained in
such a warped fashion since I read DIG THAT CRAZY GRAVE by Richard
Prather at the tender age of 10...Don't let another sun set without
reading Bust."
-Bookreporter.com
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