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Death Comes Too Late
Charles Ardai
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From the award-winning author, who Stephen King called “a master
of the short story” comes this unforgettable 20th-anniversary
celebration of Hard Case Crime. Taking you from Brazil
at Carnival to Times Square at midnight and from Tijuana,
Mexico to ancient China, exploring the dark heart of crime in the
tradition of Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, and Graham Greene.
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HARD CASE CRIME – 20 UNFORGETTABLE
STORIES BY HARD CASE CRIME FOUNDER CHARLES ARDAI Since debuting 20
years ago, Hard Case Crime has won acclaim for publishing the best
in hardboiled crime fiction – not least of all the work of
founding editor Charles Ardai, which has won the Edgar, Shamus and
Ellery Queen Awards, been selected for ‘Best of the Year’
anthologies, and earned praise from publications like
the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune and
authors ranging from James Crumley and
George Pelecanos to Megan Abbott and Stephen
King.Collected here for the first time anywhere are the author’s
20 finest stories, including his Edgar-winning “The Home
Front,” about death and repentance during World War II; the
Shamus Award finalist “Nobody Wins,” about a brutal gangland
enforcer searching for the woman he loves; and year’s-best
selections such as “A Bar Called Charley’s,” about a
traveling salesman’s most grueling night on the road. From Brazil
at Carnival to Times Square, from Tijuana, Mexico to
history’s first gunshot in 11th-century China, Ardai will take
you to some of the most dangerous places in the world – and the
darkest corners of the human heart.
Award-winning writer and co-founder of Hard Case Crime Charles
Ardai returns to the Gun Honey universe in this action-packed
spin-off featuring the sultry and explosive artwork of Ace
Continuado! Dahlia Racers is a fiery redhead who, when someone's
gunning for you, will take the heat on herself - for a price. As a
master of disguise and deception, she uses every trick to dupe
those who want you captured or dead. But will a new job taking Gun
Honey Joanna Tan's place in the crosshairs turn out to be too hot
to handle? Marked for death by a U.S. intelligence agency, Gun
Honey Joanna Tan turns to Dahlia Racers to help her pull a
vanishing act.
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Gun Honey (Paperback)
Charles Ardai; Illustrated by Ang Hor Kheng
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AWARD WINNER CHARLES ARDAI, CO-FOUNDER OF HARD CASE CRIME, BRINGS
HIS NOIR EXPERTISE TO THE FORE IN HIS DEBUT GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT A
SEXY WEAPONS SMUGGLER. Fans of pulp noir and crime writers like Ed
Brubaker and Max Allan Collins will want to sink their teeth into
this salacious and super-charged thriller. She'll get you the
weapon you need, when you need it, where you need it - no matter
how impossible. But when a gun smuggled into a high-security prison
leads to the death of dozens and the escape of a brutal criminal,
Joanna Tan is suddenly forced by the U.S. government to do a job
for them: find the man she set loose and bring him down. Features
bonus material including the story of the real Gun Honey and much
more!
By the time Richard Stark sat down to write "Deadly Edge" in 1971,
he'd been chronicling the adventures of his antihero, Parker, for
nearly a decade. But it turns out he was just warming up: the next
three "Parker" novels would see Stark crank everything up a notch -
tightening the writing, heightening the violence, and, most of all,
hardening the deadly heister at the books' heart. "Deadly Edge"
kicks things off by bidding a brutal adieu to the 1960s: Parker
robs a rock concert, but the heist goes sour, and he finds himself
- and his woman, Claire - menaced by a pair of sadistic,
drug-crazed hippies. Slayground turns the hunter into prey, as
Parker gets trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a
bevy of local mobsters. He's low on bullets - but, as anyone who's
crossed his path knows, that definitely doesn't mean he's
defenseless. Finally, in Plunder Squad, job after job disintegrates
into failure and violence, and a rare act of mercy from earlier in
the series comes back to bite Parker - hard. These books by Stark
reveal a master craftsman working at the height of his powers, and
they deserve a place on the bookshelf of every fan of crime
fiction.
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