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9 reviews
Jason Starr

Vintage, 2004

Great dark book by great modern noir writer
I'm a huge noir fan (Hammett, Cain) and am always looking for new noir fiction by contemporary writers. Most of the time, I am disappointed to find that what is being marketed as "noir" really doesn't get the power and the style of the original form. Not so here. This is not a neo-noir knockoff, but a fantastic, twisted, intricately plotted book in the style of a classical noir work, but with ...

Bust (Hard Case Crime)

18 reviews
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr

Hard Case Crime, 2006

"Men don't want lunch, they want tits"
I found this book to be hysterical. I'm not sure how much you would understand if you weren't acquainted with Irish colloquialisms, which I am, maybe you would. I just laughed out loud every few pages at the relentlessly vulgar nature of all of these characters, conscious and unconsciously, how even the 'classy' ones were still common as muck. beautiful study of hard nut people tested to their ...

Fake ID

2 reviews
Jason Starr

No Exit Press, 2009

Another Great Jason Starr Novel
This is a great novel. Probably one of Jason Starr's best. It's got the feel of a Charles Willeford novel or . . . Jim Thompson, David Goodis or Harry Whittington. If you like any of those novelists, you'll love this one. It reminded me a lot of Willeford's High Priest of California and The Woman Chaser. The character of Tommy Russo will remind you of Russell Haxby and Richard Hudson. It was hard ...

Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir

7 reviews
Duane Swierczynski, Laura Lippman, ...

Busted Flush Press, 2006

Black Diamonds
What a terrific anthology - kudo's to editor/author Duane Swierczynski for compiling this collection of short stories that define noir - hardboiled gems written with cracked asphalt and broken beer bottles; brown paper bags with cold cash or cheap whiskey or untraceable .38s. I found many of my favorite authors here - Bruen, Burton, Cotterill, Stella, Brewer, Gischler, Doolittle, and of course ...

Lights Out

10 reviews
Jason Starr

St. Martin's Minataur, 2006

Gobbled It Up!
Being a woman who has no interest in competitive sports, I thought I might have less enthusiasm for this Starr novel that centers around a baseball figure, but that is not the case. I ate it like candy. The twisted personalities and dark humor pull you in tight, and the world of the sports star is gripping. My addiction for Starr novels continues.

Nothing Personal

11 reviews
Jason Starr, 2000

Starr does it again
I love Jason Starr for his fantastic characters, intricate plots, and nasty little trick endings. This book delivers all of these things and more in a tale where the seemingly perfect upper-class couple is contrasted with a couple down on their luck. Through a series of events and entanglements and with some interferences from the requisite crazy ex-girlfriend (if you are a regular Starr reader ...

Hard Feelings

11 reviews
Jason Starr

Topeka Bindery, 2002

Starr hits another one out of the park
The more I read of Jason Starr, the more convinced I am that he is one of the most exciting and provocative new writers to come along in a long while. This is my fourth Starr book and my favorite so far - even better than Twisted City, which I also loved. The Thompson influences are easy to see but I think this book also has other sides to it. I saw nods to Brett Easton Ellis and classic ...

The Healthy College Cookbook

59 reviews
Alexandra Nimetz, Jason Stanley, ...

Storey Publishing, LLC, 2009

Not just for college students!
I usually don't bother writing reviews, because most likely anything I have to say, someone else has already said it. That may be true, but I have to add one more glowing review! I have had this cookbook for a few years now, and it has been my most coveted possession. I have since graduated, but this book comes with me fr every move, and survives every purge session. The recipes ALWAYS turn ...

The Bully

2 reviews
Jason Starr

Amazon, 2007

School Days - When Bullies Are Kings
Were you ever bullied as a kid? This story will send you back to those days in a flash. If the principal can't do anything to protect you, and your parents won't, then you are totally at the mercy of the bully. But maybe you're better off without any help. Some people's help just makes matters worse. Great story, Jason! Really enjoyed it!

The Max (Hard Case Crime)

8 reviews
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr

Hard Case Crime, 2008

A giddy masterpiece of warped noir brilliance
Take a look at that cover. Try to imagine any possible way that the story inside could live up to that potential. Now imagine that the story inside not only meets that potential, but takes it out for filet mignon and escargot, takes it out dancing, seduces it tenderly and takes it home, then slashes its throat, straps its corpse the roof of the Packard and goes on a cross-country rampage, ...

Die letzte Wette.
Jason Starr

Diogenes, 2001

Squeeze Play

1 review
James McKimmey

Point Blank, 2004

Hopefully Not the Last McKimmey Reprint
Originally written in 1962 and recently reissued by Point Blank Press, James McKimmey's Squeeze Play still has what it takes to be considered a top-notch, hardboiled book by today's standards. Main character, Jack Wade, has problems: he has recently suffered a great personal loss, his wife has both a drinking and a gambling addiction, his bank account is all but wiped out, and he has been passed ...

Ein wirklich netter Typ
Jason Starr

Diogenes Verlag AG, 2004

Cold Caller

13 reviews
Jason Starr

No Exit Press, 2005

The thrill in the late capitalism
Jason Starrs "Cold Caller" is a thriller from the modern working sphere. Its hero Bill Moss works as a telephone salesman in a call center. Which does not sound itself only times particularly excitingly, turns out however already after few sides as an ultra exciting book, which one does not want to put out of the hand, before one knows how it ends. Because Bill Moss is threatened. However not of ...

Tough Luck

9 reviews
Jason Starr

Topeka Bindery, 2003

A worthy successor to Jim Thompson
The greats of noir fiction had a way of putting you inside the heads of the disenfranchised, the losers, even stone-cold, psychopathic killers. And the most skillful among them -- say, a Jim Thompson -- had the reader gradually empathasizing with these outcasts. Jason Starr can stand toe to toe with any of these authors. His _Tough Luck_ is an expertly written story. Mickey Prada is a poor kid ...

Slide

8 reviews
Ken Bruen, Jason Starr

Hard Crime Case, 2007

A madcap ride with a one of the world' great sleezeballs, a serial killer, and a real operator
Following up where Bust leaves off, Slide is a rollicking good time ride with two of the main protagonists from the first book; Max Fisher, a hustler so driven he hustles himself first, and Angela Petrakos, a VERY calculating accomplice. They are joined by a plethora for characters who are well writ and capture the zeitgeist of a culture shot through with drugs, absolute worship of money, and ...

The Follower

11 reviews
Jason Starr

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2008

Recent Reviews of THE FOLLOWER
"It's been years since a thriller grabbed me the way Jason Starr's THE FOLLOWER did. I really couldn't stop reading it. Whenever I had to put it down to do some work, I found myself picking it up anyway, sneaking a quick chapter or two, forcing myself to stop, then picking it up again. I didn't want to leave the world he'd created, the great characters, the propulsive storytelling. His portrayal ...

Bloodlines: A Horse Racing Anthology

Vintage, 2006

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. Editors Maggie Estep ( Diary of an Emotional Idiot ; Flamethrower ) and Jason Starr ( Twisted City; Lights Out ) have brought together original fiction and nonfiction from some of our most beloved writers. Lee Child heads off the collection with a ...

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