Savage Lane

Savage Lane PDF Author: Jason Starr
Publisher: Polis Books
ISBN: 1940610656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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EVERY TOWN HAS ITS SECRETS In Savage Lane, Jason Starr has crafted a searing tale of suspense that proves the adage: Love thy neighbor, but don’t pull down your hedge. Karen Daily, recently divorced, lives with her two kids in a quaint suburb of New York City. She’s teaching at a nearby elementary school, starting to date again, and for the first time in years has found joy in her life. Mark Berman, Karen’s friend and neighbor, wants out of his unhappy marriage, and so does his wife, Deb, but they have stayed together for the sake of their children. Unbeknownst to Karen, while Mark’s marriage has deteriorated his obsession with her has grown. And as Mark’s rich fantasy life takes on a more sinister edge, rumors begin to spread about Karen and a bigger secret is uncovered. And soon Karen finds that Mark is not the only one who has taken an undesired interest in her… Jason Starr is one of our most accomplished writers of the darkness that lies within the human heart, and Savage Lane is his most riveting and intimate novel yet—a dark, domestic thriller and an honest, searing satire of a declining marriage, suburban life, and obsessive love.

Cold Caller

Cold Caller PDF Author: Jason Starr
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
ISBN: 1843445123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Cool, deadpan, a rollercoaster ride to hell If Jim Thompson had gotten an MBA, he might have written Cold Caller, a ravingly readable story of a downwardly mobile yuppie who'll just kill to get ahead. Once a rising VP at a topflight ad agency, Bill Moss now works as a "cold caller" at a telemarketing firm in the Times Square area. He's got a bad case of the urban blues, and when a pink slip rather than promotion comes through, Bill snaps... Now he's got a dead supervisor on his hands and problems no career counsellor can help him with. Jason Starr has retooled the James M. Cain novel of cynical suspense and murder for the fiber-optic age.

Fake I.D.

Fake I.D. PDF Author: Jason Starr
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
ISBN: 1843445204
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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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... In the tradition of The Killer Inside Me and The Talented Mr. Ripley, Jason Starr has created a horrifying, memorable protagonist who will go to any extent to achieve his "deserved" portion of the American dream. A chilling narrative of lies, mind games, and the forces that guide pure evil, Fake I.D. is destined to become a roman noir classic.

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Publications PDF Author: English Dialect Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Nothing Personal

Nothing Personal PDF Author: Jason Starr
Publisher: Polis Books
ISBN: 1940610966
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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A hilariously dark thriller about two very different New York couples. 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.

Hard Feelings

Hard Feelings PDF Author: Jason Starr
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
ISBN: 1843445247
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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Richie Segal's prospects are pretty miserable and, what's more humiliating, his wife's career is on the up. Richie knows he is a good salesman, but he just can't seem to land an account. He's starting to drink again and worry about whether Paula is seeing that old high school flame or maybe someone new. At thirty-four, he's a little young for a mid-life crisis, but that's what it feels like. And then there are those unwelcome memories of the neighbourhood bully, Michael Rudnick, and what he did to Richie when he was eleven. . . Just when Richie is about as low as he can get, he runs into Rudnick on the street and knows exactly what he needs to do. Suddenly things seem to be going much better. That is until they get much, much worse. In the classic tradition of Jim Thompson and Patricia Highsmith, Hard Feelings is a gripping, original novel of paranoia, obsession, and revenge.

Tough Luck

Tough Luck PDF Author: Jason Starr
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
ISBN: 184344528X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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...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' - Daniel Woodrell Mickey Prada is a nice kid. Perhaps too nice. He works in a neighbourhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to look after his sick dad who's gradually losing his marbles and has a tendency to go walkabout. But Mickey's got a little 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, sure-fire 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...

Journal of the House of Representatives of the ... Session of the ... Legislature of Texas

Journal of the House of Representatives of the ... Session of the ... Legislature of Texas PDF Author:
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Journal of the House of Representatives

Journal of the House of Representatives PDF Author: Texas. Legislature. House
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Thom's Directory of Ireland

Thom's Directory of Ireland PDF Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1266

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Annals of Iowa

Annals of Iowa PDF Author:
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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