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\"On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide--with fatal results. You'll meet Marty--the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with ... Meg--the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds ... Lily--the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by ... Cassie--the redhead with her own private agenda ... and Weaver--the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging!\"--Publisher's web site.
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A Burglar's Eye View / Mystery writer Lawrence Block visits his creation, Bernie Rhodenbarr, to get to the root of the problem
So I walked over to Barnegat Books on East 11th Street for a word with my favorite bookseller, [Bernie Rhodenbarr]. He was behind the counter with his nose in a book while his cat lay in the window, soaking up the sun. The store's sole customer was a young woman with multiple piercings who was reading a biography of St. Sebastian. \"And now the players average something like two million dollars a year, and the owners have watched their investments increase in value by a factor of five or ten, and everybody's rich, so everybody's greedy. And that's why we're going to have a strike this fall. Because they're all pigs.\" \"And women,\" he said. \"Nobody's happy just making a living. Everybody wants to grow the business, and franchise it or sell it to a huge corporation. Luckily, I'm safe. Nobody's aching to franchise Barnegat Books, and no multinational corporation's trying to buy me out.\"
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Sinner man
To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...?
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CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard has just issued ''After Dark, My Sweet'' ($7.95), a tale of a kidnapping gone badly awry, ''The Grifters'' ($8.95), a novel featuring a con man caught in a fatal relationship, ''Pop. 1280'' ($8.95), about a folksy, lethal lawman, ''The Getaway'' ($8.95), which traces the bloody aftermath of a bank robbery, and ''A Hell of a Woman'' ($8.95), about a thug's descent into madness. Next spring Vintage will reissue two additional titles: ''The Killer Inside Me,'' considered by many to be his best novel, and ''Nothing More Than Murder.'' Mysterious Press has six [Jim Thompson] novels in paperback ($3.95 each): ''Bad Boy'' and ''Roughneck,'' both autobiographical novels, ''The Golden Gizmo,'' a thriller, ''The Nothing Man,'' about a homicidal World War II veteran, ''The Kill-Off,'' a novel about blackmail and murder in a small town, and ''The Ripoff,'' about a man stalked by his lover's husband. These titles also are available in cloth from Donald I. Fine in two volumes: ''Hardcore'' ($17.95) and ''More Hardcore'' ($18.95). ''Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson'' gathers together Thompson's short fiction (Donald I. Fine, cloth, $19.95; Mysterious Press, paper, $4.50).
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CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard has just issued ''After Dark, My Sweet'' ($7.95), a tale of a kidnapping gone badly awry, ''The Grifters'' ($8.95), a novel featuring a con man caught in a fatal relationship, ''Pop. 1280'' ($8.95), about a folksy, lethal lawman, ''The Getaway'' ($8.95), which traces the bloody aftermath of a bank robbery, and ''A Hell of a Woman'' ($8.95), about a thug's descent into madness. Next spring Vintage will reissue two additional titles: ''The Killer Inside Me,'' considered by many to be his best novel, and ''Nothing More Than Murder.'' Mysterious Press has six [Jim Thompson] novels in paperback ($3.95 each): ''Bad Boy'' and ''Roughneck,'' both autobiographical novels, ''The Golden Gizmo,'' a thriller, ''The Nothing Man,'' about a homicidal World War II veteran, ''The Kill-Off,'' a novel about blackmail and murder in a small town, and ''The Ripoff,'' about a man stalked by his lover's husband. These titles also are available in cloth from Donald I. Fine in two volumes: ''Hardcore'' ($17.95) and ''More Hardcore'' ($18.95). ''Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson'' gathers together Thompson's short fiction (Donald I. Fine, cloth, $19.95; Mysterious Press, paper, $4.50).
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