Al White has little patience with losers. They make him sick, and he seems to be surrounded by them. But he can handle anything. He has his whole future planned. He's headed for success and the good life, and everything seems to be going his way.But, there are a few drawbacks. It's 1979, and the economy economy is in worse shape since The Great Depression. And maybe he does have to work nights as an orderly in an insane asylum while taking a full load of classes during the day. And...

Al White has little patience with losers. They make him sick, and he seems to be surrounded by them. But he can handle anything. He has his whole future planned. He's headed for success and the good life, and everything seems to be going his way.But, there are a few drawbacks. It's 1979, and the economy economy is in worse shape since The Great Depression. And maybe he does have to work nights as an orderly in an insane asylum while taking a full load of classes during the day. And...

Al White has little patience with losers. They make him sick, and he seems to be surrounded by them. But he can handle anything. He has his whole future planned. He's headed for success and the good life, and everything seems to be going his way.But, there are a few drawbacks. It's 1979, and the economy economy is in worse shape since The Great Depression. And maybe he does have to work nights as an orderly in an insane asylum while taking a full load of classes during the day. And...

A novella and twelve stories from a master of supernatural horrorFather John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman’s touch. Hard at first, his self-denial grew easier over time, as he learned to master his urges with a regimen of prayer, cold showers, and jigsaw puzzles. That changed the day that Debra Rocks entered his confessional. A rough-talking adult film actress, she has come to ask him to pray for a murdered costar. Her cinnamon perfume infects Fa...

A Rhode Island reporter's investigation of a series of arsons leads him down a deadly path in this Edgar Award–winning noir debut novel."A tense, terrific thriller and a remarkably assured debut from . . . an author to watch." —Dennis Lehane, New York Times –bestselling author of The Given Day and Shutter IslandLiam Mulligan i...

In this gritty crime novel, the disappearance of a stockboy sets salesman Nick Stefanos on a dangerous investigation that changes his life forever.As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off chasing some dream of big money and easy living. But the kid reminded Nick o...

The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast.

This story collection explores the violent underbelly of America's heartland: "A dark, hard-boiled debut . . . no doubt about it, Frank Bill can write." — Kirkus ReviewsWelcome to heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Frank Bill's southern Indiana is haunted with the deep, abiding sense of place, and his people are men and women pre...

"Intense and elegiac…devastatingly agile." — New York Times Book ReviewThe year is 1968. The world is changing, and sixteen-year-old Jon Mosher is determined to change with it. Racked by guilt over his older brother's childhood death and stuck in the dead-end town of Brewster, New York, he turns his rage into victories running track. Meanwhile, Ray Cappicciano, a rebel as gifted with his fists as Jon is with his feet, is trying to take care of his baby bro...

Facing the Music, Larry Brown's first book, was originally published in 1988 to wide critical acclaim. As the St. Petersburg Times review pointed out, the central theme of these ten stories "is the ageless collision of man with woman, woman with man--with the frequent introduction of that other familiar couple, drinking and violence. Most often ugly, love is nevertheless graceful, however desperate the situation."There's some glare from the brutally bright light La...

**WINNER OF THE CHIRBY FICTION AWARD • From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across Chicago to a momentous meeting, inspired by the cult classic The Warriors“Cool and real as hell.” —Tommy Orange, bestselling author of There There**An ordinary day in August 1979 dawns hot and humid in Chicago. Teenager Teddy is living with his ...

On the run in a stolen car with a kidnapped baby in tow Custis Curl and Boobie are three young people with deeply troubled pasts and bleak futures. As they struggle to find a new life for themselves it becomes painfully clear that none of them will ever be able to leave the past behind. Yet for one redemption is waiting in the unlikeliest of places. With the raw language of the street and lyrical stream-of-consciousness prose Adam Rapp hurtles the reader into a world of lost children a wor...