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The Follower (2007)
In New York City’s work hard, play harder singles scene, a young
woman looking for love can find herself the object of a deadly obsession.
With each meaningless date and disappointing new boyfriend, Katie Porter is
becoming more and more disillusioned. No matter how wide a net she casts she
can't seem to find a guy who really understands her. But someone thinks
she's special - very special. And he's following her... But it's not her
boyfriend, Andy. The frat-boy who never grew up is too busy working out how
far Katie will go and if her friends are hot, to stop and think whether
Katie's 'the one'. But someone's already decided she is - and he's watching
her.
Peter sees Katie at the gym. He sees her at the coffee bar she stops at on
the way to work. In fact, he sees her almost everywhere, as he quietly
follows her. But most of all, he sees her in his plans for the future. He's
got the proposal worked out, he's even got the ring and their happy home
already bought. After all, he's had enough time to plan things to perfection
- he grew up in the same small town. Surely, after all these years, he can't
let anything stand in his way.
Combining his trademark razor-sharp dialogue, black humor and superb
storytelling talent, The Follower is Jason Starr's most suspenseful novel
yet.
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Lights Out (2006)
From Barry and Anthony Award-winning author Jason
Starr comes a story of two friends divided by chance and reunited during a
long Brooklyn weekend that will change both of their lives forever. Ryan
Rossetti and Jake Thomas were the two Major League-bound rivals on their
high school baseball team, heading straight into history as the first two of
Canarsie’s favorite sons to make it out and make it big. Until Ryan hurt his
pitching arm and landed a ten-dollar-an-hour life as a house painter. Lucky
Jake made it all the way, and he and his ten-million-dollar signing bonus
are heading back for a publicity-motivated homecoming weekend that has all
of Brooklyn waiting to explode in celebration.
But he’s got a nasty surprise in store: Ryan is involved in an intense,
addictive relationship with Jake’s fiancée Christina, who now faces a choice
between love in a Brooklyn tenement or a heartless marriage on Easy Street.
Neither man, nor the woman who now stands between them, has any idea what’s
about to play out in the streets they once all called home. Lights Out is
vintage Jason Starr, a razor-sharp crime novel that brilliantly combines
biting social satire, explosive suspense, and honest, revealing human drama.
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Twisted City (2004)
From the acclaimed noir novelist Jason Starr comes
this savage portrait of a misanthropic man stuck in a New York nightmare.
Written in caustic, streamlined prose, Twisted City is a chilling
depiction of how quickly one's life can take a turn for the worst.
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. When he loses his wallet in a midtown bar, he is
launched into a world where he finds himself being blackmailed by junkies,
lying to his friends and family, and stumbling into a crime that may cost
him his life.
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Tough Luck (2003) --
Winner 2004 Barry Award
Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a
neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He’s got a nice
girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to help his sick dad. But
Mickey’s got a problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps
asking Mickey to place bets for him and Angelo keeps losing. As Angelo gets
further in the hole, his bad luck is turning out to be Mickey’s too.
Now Mickey’s got his bookie after him and Angelo’s showing him the butt of
his pistol rather than paying him back. So when his best friend, Chris, asks
Mickey to join him on a can’t-lose caper, Mickey decides to go along. But,
surefire schemes often have a way of backfiring, and this one is sending
Mickey into an uncharted part of Brooklyn, where fish like Chris and Mickey
have trouble just staying alive.
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Hard Feelings (2002)
Things aren't going so well for Richie Segal. His prospects at the job are
pretty miserable and, what's more humiliating, his wife's prospects at her
job are pretty good. Richie knows he's a good salesman, but he just can't
seem to land an account. And he's starting to drink again. And worry about
whether Paula's seeing that old high school flame, or maybe someone new.
It's a little early, at thirty-four, for a mid-life crisis, but that's
pretty much what it feels like. And there're those unwelcome memories of the
neighborhood bully, Michael Rudnick and what he did to Richie when he was
thirteen. Richie Segal's feeling, well, abused.
Just when Richie's about as low as he can get, he runs into Rudnick on the
street and knows exactly what he needs to do. And suddenly things seem to be
going much better. That is until they get much, much worse. In the classic
tradition of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain, Hard Feelings is novel that
lets us into the mind of an ordinary guy capable of things that even he
couldn't have imagined.
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Fake ID (2000)
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Nothing Personal (2000)
The DePinos are miserable, living in a rundown
apartment above a deli on Tenth Avenue. The Sussmans live in a posh building
on the Upper East Side. When Joey DePino loses his job and is threatened by
his bookies and loan shark, he involves the Sussmans in a sick, desperate
plan to pay off his gambling debts. But ad exec David Sussman has his own
problems trying to stop his suddenly psychopathic mistress from ruining him,
and he won't go down without a fight. As the lives of the DePinos and the
Sussmans become increasingly intertwined, Joey and David plunge their
families into an amoral world where anything is possible and nothing is
personal. Part crime novel, part unflinching satire of compulsive gambling,
eating disorders, and cold-blooded evil, Nothing Personal firmly establishes
Jason Starr as one of the most exciting young noir novelists around.
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Top Job (2000)
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Cold Caller (1998)
A ravingly readable tale of a downwardly mobile
yuppie who'll just kill to get ahead. Think Jim Thompson with an MBA . . .
Once Bill Moss was a rising VP at a topflight ad agency, but now he works as
a "cold caller" at a telemarketing firm in the Times Square area. He's got a
bad case of the urban blues. Still, he's good at his work and (he thinks)
about to be promoted, when out of the blue he's fired. So Bill snaps . . .
and the next thing he knows he has a dead supervisor on his hands and
problems no career counselor can help him with. In Cold Caller Jason
Starr retools the James M. Cain novel of cynical suspense and murder for the
fiber-optic age.
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Bust (2006) by
Jason Starr and
Ken Bruen
5 important lessons you can get from reading Bust:
book.
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When you hire a hit man to kill your
wife, don't pick a psychopath.
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Drano is not the best tool for getting
rid of a dead body.
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Those locks on hotel room doors?
Not very secure.
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A curly blond wig isn't much of a
disguise.
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SECRETS can kill.
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Slide (2007) by Jason Starr and
Ken Bruen
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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Bloodlines: A Horse Racing Anthology
(2006), Jason Starr and Maggie Estep, eds.
From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys,
trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies
and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime.
Includes original fiction and nonfiction from some of our most beloved
writers, including
Bill Barich, Charlie Stella, Daniel Woodrell, James
Surowiecki, Jane Smiley, Jason Starr, Jerry
Stahl, Joe R. Lansdale, John Schaefer,
Jonathan Ames,
Ken Bruen,
Laura Hillenbrand, Laura Lippman,
Lee Child, Maggie Estep, Meghan O’Rourke,
Scott Phillips, Steven Crist, Wallace Stroby, and William Nack
Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs. the Ugly American
(2006), Ken Bruen, ed.
Brand new stories by: Charlie Stella, Craig
McDonald, Duane Swierczynski, Eoin Colfer,
Gary Phillips, James O. Born,
Jason Starr, Jim
Fusilli, John Rickards, Ken Bruen, Kevin Wignall, Laura
Lippman, Olen Steinhauer, Pat Mullan, Patrick J. Lambe, Peter Spiegelman,
Ray Banks, Reed Farrel Coleman,
Sarah Weinman, and others.
Irish crime-fiction sensation Ken Bruen and cohorts shine a light on the
dark streets of Dublin. Dublin Noir features an awe-inspiring cast
of writers who between them have won all major mystery and crime-fiction
awards. This collection introduces secret corners of a fascinating city
and surprise assaults on the "Celtic Tiger" of modern Irish prosperity.
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