Jason Starr – författare

From award–winning authors Ken Bruen and Jason Starr comes Bust, an original new noir novel by two of the world’s finest crime writers.

Five valuable lessons you can learn by listening to Bust:

Max and Angela are going down.

When we last saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking, and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law—Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos.

From the evil geniuses who brought you Bust comes a roller-coaster ride of suspense, mayhem, and vicious fun.

Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer, and Angela is back in Ireland hooking up with a would-be record setter—in the field of serial killing. Will their paths cross again?

Dealing … producing … all in a day’s work for a druglord. Or in Hollywood.

Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is pursuing a comeback dream of her own, setting herself up in Hollywood as producer of a series based on her and Max’s life story. But even in La-La Land, happy endings are hard to come by, especially with both the cops and your enemies in the drug trade coming after you.

Welcome to the cool side of the 1950s, where the fast cars and revved-up movie monsters peel out in the night. Where outlaw vixens and jukebox tramps square off with razorblades and lead pipes. Where rockers rock, cool cats strut, and hot rods roar. Where you howl to the moon as the tiki drums pound and the electric guitar shrieks and that spit-and-holler jamboree ain’t gonna stop for a long, long time . . . maybe never.

This is the ’50s where ghost shows still travel the back roads of the south, and rockabilly has a hold on the nation’s youth; where lucky hearts tell the tale, and maybe that fella in the Shriners’ fez ain’t so square after all. Where exist noir detectives of the supernatural, tattoo artists of another kind, Hollywood fix-it men, and a punk kid with grasshopper arms under his chain-studded jacket and an icy stare on his face.

This is the ’50s of Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror. This is your ticket to the dark side of American kitsch . . . the fun and frightful side!

Table of Contents includes:

“The Golden Girls of Fall” by Seanan McGuire“Sea Lords of the Columbia” by Weston Ochse“Tremble” by Kasey Lansdale and Joe R. Lansdale“The Demon of the Track” by Gary Phillips“Outlawed Ink” by Jason Starr“We Might Be Giants” by Nancy Holder“Universal Monster” by Duane Swierczynski“Draggers” by David J. Schow“The Starlite Drive-In” by John M. Floyd“Dr. Morbismo’s InsaniTERRORium Horror Show” by Lisa Morton“Hot Babe” by Bill Pronzini“The Prom Tree” by Yvonne Navarro“I’m with the Band” by Steve Perry“Mystery Train: An Arcane Investigation” by Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens“Lab Experiment Turf War” by Jeff Strand  “The She-Creature” by Amelia Beamer“Fish out of Water” by Will Viharo“I Was a Teenage Shroom Fiend” by Brian Hodge