Brash Books

20/08/2024

When ROCK was first published in 1958, future Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Larry McMurtry wrote “this novel deserves a wider reading than it will likely get,” and he was right. Now this searing, hard-boiled classic is finally back in print.

“Wagoner makes an ambitious attempt to deal with the children of our present rock-and-roll generation and, in some respects, he is depressingly successful. The book is a testament of lovelessness, the compassionate record of a warping that has touched a whole generation. It is strong, serious writing about a serious subject.” —Larry McMurtry

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18/08/2024

Readers love MURDER ON THE DODDER, the eagerly awaited sequel to THE LEMON MAN, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Novel and a Deadly Pleasures Magazine Top 10 Paperback of the Year.

"This novel steeps readers nicely in the atmosphere and history of Dublin" ... "More cycling, more violent adventures" ... "A great continuation of the misadventures of my favorite Irish hit man"... "A fast-moving thriller" ... "Fans of Roddy Doyle's humour mixed with the violence and characters from movies like 'The Gentlemen' and John Wick series will enjoy MURDER ON THE DODDER."

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16/08/2024

Are you an aspiring author hunting for an agent? You need to read this post from the amazing Victoria Strauss on how to spot fake literary agents who are aggressively soliciting authors (particularly self-published ones).

Fake agencies mentioned in this post: The Elite Scout SocietyImplicitPress Literary AgencyJudith Carter LiteraryLiterary Agents AssociationMushens & Churchill Literary AgencyStory Arc Literary GroupsZenith Literary Not too long ago, I published a post with tips and techniques to help writers spot a....

16/08/2024

MONEY MONEY MONEY by David Wagoner
Big, generous Willie Grier is swimming in Lake Michigan one summer night in 1955 when he finds the dead body of a man. The horrifying experience leads him into bed with a ruthlessly seductive woman, pits him against vicious gangsters, and hurls him into a whirlwind of cold cash, hot s*x, and bloody violence.
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14/08/2024

BOUDICA AND THE LOST ROMAN — a propulsive, enthralling historical thriller by Mike Ripley, the acclaimed author of the new novels in Margery Allingham’s beloved Albert Campion series.

"Ripley’s novels are as witty as they are deftly plotted…boisterous and inventive."
—Phillip Kerr

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12/08/2024

In 1942, during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, two seasoned homicide detectives—one a Eurasian, caught between two worlds, and the other, a pacifist Japanese escaping dark and tragic secrets at home—are thrown together to solve a high-profile murder and come to terms with each other under the yoke of a brutal and corrupt military regime.

"International history buffs will enjoy the unraveling of this intricate multicultural mystery." —Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author, on TOKYO TIME https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0BX7YVXJG/brash-facebook-20

10/08/2024

"If Westlake’s Parker got trapped in Scorsese’s film 'After Hours,' it’d look something like 'A Night at the Shore.' Knighton’s unnamed thief is resourceful, remorseless (mostly) and just a whole lot of fun to read."
—Reader review of A NIGHT AT THE SHORE

“Pulse-pounding... Knighton’s gifts for pacing and atmosphere make his antihero’s perils leap off the page. Contemporary noir fans will devour this.”
—Publishers Weekly

A NIGHT AT THE SHORE by Tony Knighton: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CJ2RN37H/brash-facebook-20

08/08/2024

MAN IN THE MIDDLE, the first book by acclaimed novelist and poet David Wagoner, back in print for the first time in 70 years, was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as ”a breathtaking novel filled with terror and pathos.”

“A remarkable first novel by a powerful new writer. Compassion, sustained excitement, and acute observation of the Chicago locale make for a moving story.” —New York Times

“It has everything a mystery should have, but it goes one step further.” —Pittsburgh Press

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06/08/2024

“Brierley succeeds in escaping from John le Carré’s shadow and turning out a book marked by a full measure of originality.” —New York Times

George Orris is a half-Czech British agent working covertly in Prague in 1948 when all of his fellow spies are captured and killed…except for him. There are some spymasters in London who assume his escape obviously means that he’s the traitor who betrayed the agents. To prove himself innocent, and to get revenge for the deaths of his colleagues, he sets a trap to expose the mole in war-ravaged Berlin, a city about to be ripped apart by the Communists. It’s a complex, deadly game that pits him against the KGB…and his own intelligence service.

BIG BEAR, LITTLE BEAR by David Brierley: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CHQ14ZDZ/brash-facebook-20

04/08/2024

David Wagoner’s Beloved Coming-of-Age Novel THE ESCAPE ARTIST is Back!

Danny Masters is a teenage magician, pick-pocket and escape artist who learned it all from his late father. All he wants to do is make it in the big city. But along the way he picks the wrong pocket, stealing a wallet full of stolen cash, and finds himself having to use all of his skills just to stay alive… while still chasing his dreams.

This book became a 1982 movie starring Griffin O’Neal and Raúl Juliá, produced by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by Melissa Mathison, who later wrote "E.T."
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02/08/2024

All five novels in David Brierley's classic, widely-acclaimed CODY series of espionage thrillers in one massive, low-priced ebook edition: THE COMPLETE CODY.

"If you want espionage in the John le Carré class, this is it.” —The Observer

COLD WAR - BLOOD GROUP O - SKORPION’S DEATH - SNOWLINE - DEATH & CO.

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31/07/2024

THE COMPLETE D.C. MAN: All 4 novels in the legendary DC Man series of breathtaking thrillers, back in print for the first time in 50 years!

Brian Petersen is an ex-military intelligence officer-turned-D.C. lobbyist recovering from his family’s tragic death in a car accident. With his lobbying business in the toilet, he’s become a political fixer who uses his sharp intellect, his vast political connections, and his lethal, combat skills to solve sensitive problems.

"Man, this is a damned good book. I have zero-to-little interest in politics… but it’s so much better than 90% of paperback fiction that I couldn’t help but fall for it." —Bloody Spicy Books

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29/07/2024

"Admirers of S.A. Cosby and Ace Atkins will appreciate Thompson’s combination of hardboiled crime tropes and psychological depth." —Publishers Weekly

The third novel in the acclaimed Sheriff C**t Harper Series by Phillip Thompson is available now at https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/B0CDX44TFK/brash-facebook-20

25/07/2024

Thriller fans are raving about SLATEWIPER! "The writing in this book is superb and the tension and action make it a top action thriller"... "suspenseful and well written"... "Once you start, you are hooked."

Lara Blackwood, genetic engineering entrepreneur and presidential advisor, gets an urgent call to help solve a horrific epidemic in Tokyo. She soon realizes, to her horror, that terrorists have diabolically twisted her research to create a slatewiper — a genetic weapon that uses a person’s own DNA to kill them. It’s the perfect way to annihilate an entire race…or all of humanity…and she’s the only one who can stop it.
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21/07/2024

Readers love MURDER ON THE DODDER, the eagerly awaited sequel to THE LEMON MAN, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Novel and a Deadly Pleasures Magazine Top 10 Paperback of the Year.

"Punchy prose and sightseeing in Dublin as an extra" ... "A great continuation of the misadventures of my favorite Irish hit man"... "A fast-moving thriller"... "The Dublin location is perfect" ... "Fans of Roddy Doyle's humour mixed with the violence and characters from movies like 'The Gentlemen' and John Wick series will enjoy MURDER ON THE DODDER."

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10/07/2024

MAN IN THE MIDDLE, the first book by acclaimed novelist and poet David Wagoner, back in print for the first time in 70 years, was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as ”a breathtaking novel filled with terror and pathos.”

Middle-aged Charlie Bell, a crippled watchman at a railroad crossing, sees a woman leap out of a passing train. He takes the injured woman, and the briefcase she was clutching, back to his apartment. She’s a reporter, and the briefcase contains papers that could destroy a corrupt Senator. But before Charlie can get her help, thugs kill her and he barely escapes. Now he is relentlessly pursued through the Chicago underworld by cops who think he’s a murderer…and killers intent on silencing him.

“A remarkable first novel by a powerful new writer. Compassion, sustained excitement, and acute observation of the Chicago locale make for a moving story.” —New York Times

“It has everything a mystery should have, but it goes one step further.” —Pittsburgh Press

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05/07/2024

Today, Brash Books remembers author Ralph Dennis, who died July 4, 1988. Read this appreciation of Dennis by Brash co-founder Lee Goldberg on CrimeReads, and pick up one of his unforgettable, ground-breaking crime novels, which we brought all back in print, including the long-lost, previously unpublished, final novel in the series.

My expensive, life-changing addiction began six years ago when a man approached me in a nameless hotel in a city I don’t remember. “You’re really going love this,” Bill Crider said, almost in a whi…

04/07/2024

Today, Brash Books remembers Ralph Dennis, who died on July 4, 1988. Read this appreciation of Dennis by Brash co-founder Lee Goldberg at CrimeReads, and pick up one of Dennis' groundbreaking novels, such as ATLANTA DEATHWATCH, #1 in the Hardman series: https://crimereads.com/ralph-dennis-the-lost-hardman-classics/
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My expensive, life-changing addiction began six years ago when a man approached me in a nameless hotel in a city I don’t remember. “You’re really going love this,” Bill Crider said, almost in a whi…