Times are tough for David Miller, a journalist for a second rate financial magazine who hates his boss, is tired of supporting his girlfriend's partying lifestyle, and recently lost his sister to cancer. But things are about to get much worse. After he loses his wallet in a midtown bar, he finds himself being blackmailed by junkies, lying to his family and friends, and stumbling into a crime that may cost him his life.

KEN BRUEN: "Demonic, demented and truly ferocious and a flat out joy to read. In other words, a total feast. Like it?...I plain worshipped it. My book of the year as Tough Luck was last year."

ANDREW KLAVAN: "Jason Starr is terrific and Twisted City is one of his best. Starr knows what James M. Cain knew: that a whole world of evil lies right on the edge of the everyday world and you can cross the border in a city minute. His stuff is tough and real and brilliant.

JOE R. LANSDALE: "Streamline as a model's hips, dark as the inside of a dog's gut, Twisted City is a hip, white collar update on the James Cain, Jim Thompson style novel with a seasoning all its own. Jason Starr is a unique talent, and Twisted City is one unique book."

SCOTT PHILLIPS: "To the obsessive emotionality of a Cornell Woolrich and the gleeful nihilism of a Charles Willeford, Jason Starr adds his own 21st-century urban weirdness. Funny, sick and harrowing, often all at once, Twisted City more than lives up to its title, and I enjoyed it tremendously."

DANIEL WOODRELL: Jason Starr is one of the new voices of noir fiction, a writer capable of taking noir from what it has always been toward whatever it can become. He’s got his own slant, his own slashing style, and the moral honesty true noir requires. I could go on, but just look at the proof, Twisted City.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY: "Starr (Tough Luck), an heir of the bleakly noir mantle of Jim Thompson, is a master at portraying New York as a city of the damned. In David he gives his ever-expanding cult readership a normal guy, calmly accepting a ticket to hell, where an ending worthy of Charles Willeford at his most absurd awaits him."

TIME OUT NEW YORK/ PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER/ DENVER POST, REVIEWED BY JOHN FREEMAN: "(A) slick noir novel...Starr is such a polished writer that once you start reading it's painful to tear yourself away."

THE MARIETTA TIMES: "Twisted City" turns on the tension early, keeps it running at a breathless rate until a satisfying climax...Look for "Twisted City" if you want to stay reading deep into the night."

THIS WEEK, REVIEWED BY CRAIG MCDONALD: "Jason Starr is one of the rising lights in the crime fiction world...Hardboiled crime fiction readers who run the sordid gauntlet and hang in for the climax will find a dark twist that hails from the same seamy, wrong side of the tracks where Chinatown, James Ellroy's White Jazz and Daniel Woodrell's Death of Sweet Mister dwell."

MYSTERY ONE BOOKSTORE, REVIEWED BY JON JORDAN: Starr has written a wonderfully dark and sometimes comic tale of life in the Big Apple....Noir with a Nitrous Oxide tank under the hood.