Hey, Bill asked about this book awhile back, but I didn't
want to give any details before Hard Case made it official,
and today they have
(below)...Ken and I had a great time working on the project
and are very excited about it. Cheers, Jason
Award-Winning Authors KEN BRUEN and JASON STARR Team Up For
Hard Case Crime
Authors of THE GUARDS and TWISTED CITY to Collaborate on
BUST
New York (June 3, 2005) - Hard Case Crime announced today
that acclaimed crime writers Ken Bruen and Jason Starr will
collaborate on an original novel titled BUST, to be published
in Spring 2006. Ireland-based Bruen is the author of more
than a dozen celebrated novels, including THE GUARDS, THE
KILLING OF THE TINKERS, and THE MAGDALEN MARTYRS. New York
City-based Starr has won raves for novels such as HARD
FEELINGS, TOUGH LUCK, and TWISTED CITY. Between them, the two
authors have been nominated for almost every major award in
the mystery field, including the Edgar, the Shamus, the
Barry, the Anthony, and the Macavity Awards. (THE GUARDS won
the Shamus in 2003, TOUGH LUCK won the Barry in 2004, and
both men are again up for the Anthony and Barry Awards this
year.) BUST tells the story of sleazy New York businessman
Max Fisher, who hatches a plot to kill his wife with the help
of his Irish-American executive assistant and an ex-IRA hit
man of her acquaintance. Naturally, things go horribly
wrong.
Launched in September 2004 by novelists and pulp mavens
Charles Ardai and Max Phillips, the Edgar Award-winning Hard
Case Crime imprint revives the storytelling and visual style
of the great pulp paperbacks of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The
line features an exciting mix of lost pulp masterpieces from
some of the most acclaimed crime writers of all time and
gripping new novels from the next generation of great
hardboiled authors, all with new painted covers in the grand
pulp style. Authors range from current best-sellers such as
Lawrence Block, Max Allan Collins, Ed McBain, and Donald E.
Westlake to Golden Age stars like Erle Stanley Gardner
(creator of "Perry Mason"), Donald Hamilton (creator of "Matt
Helm"), Wade Miller (author of TOUCH OF EVIL), and Charles
Williams (author of DEAD CALM). In October 2005, Hard Case
Crime will publish THE COLORADO KID, a new book by Stephen
King, who has said, "This is an exciting line and I'm
delighted to be part of it."
Since its debut, Hard Case Crime has been the subject of
enthusiastic coverage by a wide range of publications
including The New York Times, USA Today, Vanity Fair,
Playboy, U.S. News & World Report, BusinessWeek, The
Chicago Sun-Times, The Houston Chronicle, New York magazine,
the New York Post and Daily News, Salon, Publishers Weekly
and USA Weekend, as well as numerous other magazines,
newspapers, and online media outlets. In The Stranger, Neal
Pollack wrote, "Hard Case may be the best new American
publisher to appear in the last decade." The Chicago
Sun-Times wrote, "Hard Case Crime is doing a wonderful
job…These modern `penny dreadfuls' are worth every dime." And
Publishers Weekly wrote, "They do write `em like they used
to."
"Ken and I have been looking for an excuse to work together
and the chance to collaborate on an old-fashioned pulp crime
novel for Hard Case Crime was just too good to pass up," said
Jason Starr. Ken Bruen added, "We had a blast writing this
book and have already started talking about a sequel."
"Bust is a simply terrific book that will not only satisfy
existing fans of Ken's and Jason's work but should bring them
legions of new readers," said Charles Ardai, Hard Case
Crime's editor. "These guys are well versed in the pulp
tradition and know how to tell the sort of story that grabs
you by the throat on the first page and doesn't let you go
until the last. This is definitely a stay-up-all-night-to-
finish-it sort of book."
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