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Charlie Huston
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Moon Knight Omnibus (Paperback)
Charlie Huston, Duane Swierczynski; Illustrated by David Finch
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Skinner (Paperback)
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A high-concept spy thriller that pushes the genre into the 21st
century. 'One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from
the noir tradition in this century' Stephen King 'Just when you
think you've caught up with him on the curve, Charlie Huston drives
right off the cliff, landing on a road no one else could see ...
shockingly original' NEW YORK TIMES 'Among the new voices in
21st-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston is where it's at'
WASHINGTON POST Skinner wasn't like other boys. He appeared to have
no emotions, powered by reason and logic alone. And to the CIA,
he's the perfect asset. An assassin they can programme and control.
But now Skinner has been tasked with a new mission. One that will
place him at the heart of a deadly conspiracy. Even for an
operative with Skinner's off-the-wall skillset, it's a suicide
mission. And Skinner begins to wonder if he's become too good at
his job for his employers to keep around. For the first time,
Skinner has to decide whose side he's really on. And if the price
of his own survival is worth paying.
It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where
Henry "call me Hank" Thompson once played California baseball, to
the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the
rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here,
working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is
surely going to get him killed.
It begins when Hank's neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush
and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isn't until two Russians in
tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and
beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants
something from him. He just doesn't know what it is, where it is,
or how to make them understand he doesn't have it.
Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging
his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guy's head, playing
hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at
his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.
All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the
weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All
because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing
Hank wanted was to take third base--without getting caught.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Those stories you hear? The ones about things that only come out at
night? Things that feed on blood, feed on us? Got news for you:
they're true. Only it's not like the movies or old man Stoker's
storybook. It's worse. Especially if you happen to be one of them."
"Just" "ask Joe Pitt."
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There's a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected
with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on
folks' brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he's still the one who has
to deal with them. That's just the kind of life he has. Except
afterlife might be better word.
From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan
is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he's not happy
about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and
he's tough as nails and hard to kill. But spending his nights
trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that's eating at
him isn't his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn't make it any
easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the
Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan-it ain't easy.
It's worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition-the city's most
powerful Clan-and finds himself searching for a poor little rich
girl who's gone missing in Alphabet City.
Now the Coalition and the girl's high-society parents are breathing
down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a
crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though.
Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes
down . . . and before the sun comes up.
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Skinner (Paperback)
Charlie Huston
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Skinner--known by the name of the psychological experiment that
fostered his emotionless brutality--founded his career in "asset
protection" on fear. To touch anyone under Skinner's protection was
to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until
Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did
and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community.
Now, a cyber-terrorist attack on the US power grid is about to end
that long exile. His asset is Jae, a roboticist with a gift for
seeing the underlying systems violently shaping a new era of global
guerrilla warfare.
At the root of is all is a young boy, the innocent seed of a plot
grown in the slums of Mumbai. Brought to flower, that plot will tip
the balance of world power in a perilous new direction.
A combination of Le Carre spycraft with Stephenson
techno-philosophy, SKINNER is the triumphant novel that delivers a
new kind of thriller for a new kind of world.
There's a bad vibe in the air. Every Vampyre in Manhattan feels it
in their bones . . . and in their blood. The mother of all gang
rumbles is brewing between the divided Clans of the city's undead.
A battle royal for more turf that will tear the island from stem to
stern. And just his luck, Joe Pitt is smack in the middle of it. A
rogue Vampyre who shunned Clan life, Joe's his own man. Kind of.
Thing is, there's certain people have a claim on his talents. When
they need someone who's . . . expendable, they call on Joe Pitt.
They're calling now. With war drums beating from the Hudson to the
Harlem River, Joe's been dispatched into the uncharted territory of
Brooklyn to seal an alliance with the Freaks - a Clan who more than
live up to their name. But across the bridge, things go south with
savage swiftness, as Joe gets swept into a murderous family feud
between crazed Clans that will paint the borough scarlet from
Gravesend to Coney Island.
"Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction,
Charlie Huston . . . is where it's at."
-The Washington Post
"Huston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and
characters crazy enough to take it on the road."
-The New York Times Book Review
Reluctant hitman Henry Thompson has fallen on hard times. His grip
on life is disintegrating, his pistol hand shaking, his body pinned
to his living room couch by painkillers-and his boss, Russian
mobster David Dolokhov, isn't happy about any of it. So Henry is
surprised when he's handed a new assignment: keep tabs on a minor
league baseball star named Miguel Arenas.
Henry has no pity for the slugger and the wicked gambling problem
that got him in trouble, but he can't help liking the guy. After
all, Henry used to be just like him: a natural-born ball player
with a bright future. But hell, that was long ago. Before Henry did
some guy a favor and ended up running for his life. Before his
girlfriend and buddies got gunned down by someone on his tail.
Before he agreed to buy his parents' safety with a life of
violence.
And when Miguel gets drafted by the Mets and is sent to the
Brooklyn Cyclones, Henry must head back to New York, back to the
place where all his problems began-and where Henry might find a
real reason to keep living, a reason that may just cost him his
life.
"Huston reminds me of all my favorite writers-Pete Dexter,
Robert Stone, Crumley. If there is such a thing as compassionate
noir, Charlie has found it. He's a true marvel."
-Ken Bruen, author of The Guards
"Charlie Huston is the real deal."
-Peter Straub
Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash
that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a
Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to
play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker
mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly
Hank' s in a desperate race to get to his parents in California
before anyone can harm them. Along the way he' ll face Federales
and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug
dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind.
From the golden beaches of the Yucata n to the seedy strip clubs of
Vegas, Charlie Huston opens a door to the squalid underworld of
crime and corruption- and invites the reader to live it in the
extreme.
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