Authors: Daniel Boyd
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FIFTY-to-ONE
by
CHARLES ARDAI
Written to celebrate the publication of Hard Case Crime’s 50th book,
Fifty-to-One
imagines what it would have been like if Hard Case Crime had been founded 50 years ago, by a rascal out to make a quick buck off the popularity of pulp fiction.
A fellow like that might make a few enemies—especially after publishing a supposed non-fiction account of of a heist at a Mob-run nightclub, actually penned by an 18-year-old showgirl with dreams of writing for
The New Yorker
.
With both the cops and the crooks after them, our heroes are about to learn that reading and writing pulp novels is a lot more fun than living them…
A
CCLAIM FOR
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HARLES
A
RDAI
“A very smart and very cool fellow.”
—Stephen King
“Charles Ardai…will be the next me but, I hope, less peculiar.”
—Isaac Asimov
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An Ingenious Thriller From the Best-Selling Author of
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY and JURASSIC PARK
ODDS
ON
by
MICHAEL CRICHTON
WRITING AS JOHN LANGE
IS THE PERFECT HEIST
ABOUT TO GO UP IN SMOKE?
The plan: to rob the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain. The crew: three seasoned criminals with the skills to pull off the heist of the century. The edge: every aspect of the scheme has been simulated in a computer, down to the last variable.
The complication: three beautiful women with agendas of their own—and the sort of variables no computer can fathom.
A
CCLAIM FOR THE
A
UTHOR
“Crackling
…
mysterious
…
”
—Entertainment Weekly
“A master storyteller.”
—Sunday Telegraph (UK)
“Michael’s talent outscaled even his own dinosaurs of Jurassic Park…There is no one in the wings that will ever take his place.”
—Steven Spielberg
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Classic Suspense from
Donald E. Westlake’s Legendary Alter Ego
Lemons
NEVER LIE
by
RICHARD STARK
When he’s not pulling heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows is expensive and jobs have been thin, which is why Grofield agrees to listen to Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York.
Unfortunately, Myers’ plan is insane—so Grofield walks out on him.
But Myers isn’t a man you walk out on…
R
AVES FOR
‘LEMONS NEVER LIE’
“This first-rate hard-boiled mystery…reads like Raymond Chandler with a dark literary whisper…of Cormac McCarthy.”
—Time
“The prose is clean, the dialogue laced with dry humor, the action comes hard and fast.
”
—George Pelecanos
“
Lemons Never Lie
is a delight—a crime story that leaves you smiling.”
—Washington Post
“The best Richard Stark ever.”
—Paul Kavanagh
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