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.A New York bar bouncer with dreams of being more, Tommy Russo jumps at the chance to join a horse-owning syndicate. But to do so he’ll have to pony up $10,000—and that’s money he hasn’t got. So what’s an ambitious young man to do? Anything he has to...

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review): "Starr expertly combines elements of hard-boiled crime novels with a dark view of human nature to create a one-of-a-kind, mesmerizing read."

KEN TUCKER, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: "A fine example of the tough stuff...I loved it."

BOOKREPORTER.COM: "Jason Starr is the link between Richard Prather and Albert Camus....It’s almost impossible to do FAKE I.D. its proper justice other than to tell you that you need to read this book before today’s sun sets."

PULPETTI:  "An American masterpiece, a piece of great literature while it’s also a great crime novel."

TIME OUT: "Bang up to date, but reminiscent of David Goodis and Jim Thompson, Fake I.D. is a powerful novel of the American Dream turning into the American Nightmare that marks Starr out as a writer to follow."

PULP SERENADE: "Quintessential noir to the extreme, Fake I.D. shows that the thematic underpinnings of classic authors such as Thompson and Goodis are just as relevant to today’s world as they were fifty years ago."

THE LITERARY REVIEW: "Low life diligently trawled by a master of the genre...Ruthlessly good; definitively noir. A flinty, flawless entry in the annals of ill luck."

THE HERALD, GLASGOW: "Fake I.D. is a welcome oddity. A chilling account of the disintegration of a loser, it assumes the voice of a killer with an icy conviction."

UNCUT: "Likeable and fast-moving"

WATERSTONES ON-LINE: "Starr's best book yet. Echoing the neo-noir feel of Cold Caller and Nothing Personal...up there with the best of Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford and David Goodis."