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Authors: Lawrence Block
HCC 115 - Borderline (28 page)
Sexy Suspense From
An MWA Grandmaster!
LONG GREEN HEART
by
LAWRENCE BLOCK
SHE WAS EVERY MAN’S DREAM—AND ONE MAN’S NIGHTMARE
Johnny Hayden and Doug Rance had a scheme to take real estate entrepreneur Wallace
Gunderman for all he was worth. But they needed a girl on the inside to make it work.
Enter Evelyn Stone: Gunderman’s secretary, his lover—and his worst enemy. Gunderman
promised to marry her, but never came through. Now she’s ready to make him pay…
PRAISE FOR
LAWRENCE BLOCK
“The narrative is layered with detail, the action is handled with Block’s distinctive
clarity of style and the ending is a stunning tour de force.”
— New York Times
“Block is awfully good, with an ear for dialogue, an eye for lowlife types and a gift
for fast and effortless storytelling that bear comparison to Elmore Leonard.”
— Los Angeles Times
“Wonderful.”
— USA Today
“Lawrence Block is a master of entertainment.”
— Washington Post Book World
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A Classic Caper From
An MWA Grandmaster!
by
LAWRENCE BLOCK
AT CARDS AND WITH WOMEN,
BILL MAYNARD KNEW HOW TO CHEAT
On the mend after getting run out of Chicago, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard
is hungry for some action—but not nearly as hungry as Joyce Rogers, the tantalizing
wife of Bill’s latest mark. Together they hatch an ingenious scheme to get rid of
her husband. But in life as in poker, the other player sometimes has an ace up his
sleeve…
A
CCLAIM FOR
LAWRENCE BLOCK
“[The] one writer of mystery and detective fiction who comes close to replacing the
irreplaceable John D. MacDonald.”
— Stephen King
“The suspense mounts and mounts and mounts… very superior.”
— James M. Cain
“Brilliant…For clean, close-to-the-bone prose, the line goes from Dashiell Hammett
to James M. Cain to Lawrence Block. He’s that good.”
— Martin Cruz Smith
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A Twisted Tale From
An MWA Grandmaster!
TREACLE
by
LAWRENCE BLOCK
SEX, DRUGS, AND MURDER IN
THE LAND OF THE LOTUS EATERS
Anita Carbone was a good girl—and it bored her.
That’s why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats
and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could
imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the
gentle touch. But it was also where she met his drug-dealing roommate—a man whose
unnatural appetites led to murder…
THE CRITICS PRAISE
LAWRENCE BLOCK
“Exceptional… A whale of a knockout punch to the solar plexus.”
— New York Daily News
“Block knows how to pace a story and tighten the noose of suspense. He…knows his mean
streets.”
— San Francisco Examiner
“Lawrence Block is finally getting the attention he deserved.”
— Chicago Tribune
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Stunning Suspense From
An MWA Grandmaster!
CASTRO
by
LAWRENCE BLOCK
There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting
what might well be a suicide mission. The pay? $20,000 apiece. The mission? Find a
way into Cuba and kill Fidel Castro.
This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile
Crisis under a pen name Lawrence Block never used before or since, is the rarest of
Block’s books—and still a work of chilling relevance all these years later, with Cuba
once again commanding headlines.
THE RAVES KEEP COMING FOR
THE NOVELS OF
LAWRENCE BLOCK
“Remarkable…The suspense is relentless.”
— Philadelphia Inquirer
“[A] lost masterpiece.”
— Playboy
“A taut little noir gem…delightfully twisted.”
— Chicago Sun-Times
“Deliciously pulpy.”
— U.S. News & World Report
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Sexy Suspense From
An MWA Grand Master!
A Novel of Sex and Violence
by
LAWRENCE BLOCK
WRITING AS JILL EMERSON
So this girl walks into a bar. When she walks out, there’s a man with her. She goes
to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even
better.
She’s been doing this for a while, and she’s good at it.
Then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who
survived a night with her.
And now she’s a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down.
Crossing them off her list
…
R
AVES FOR THE
W
ORK OF
L
AWRENCE
B
LOCK:
“Sometimes you open up a book and you just know: You’re in the hands of a master.”
— The Washington Post
“Addictive.”
— Entertainment Weekly
“Reads like it’s been jolted by factory-fresh defibrillator pads.”
— Time
“Block grabs you…and never lets go.”
— Elmore Leonard
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An MWA Grand Master’s
Great Lost Novel!
by
DONALD E. WESTLAKE
The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate
and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s.
But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals
and presidents and veteran of countless USO tours to buck up American troops in the
field. And not the five remaining members of the selfproclaimed People’s Revolutionary
Army, who’ve decided that kidnapping Koo Davis would be the perfect way to bring their
cause back to life…
R
AVES FOR
D
ONALD
E. W
ESTLAKE:
“One of the great writers of the 20th Century.”
— Newsweek
“[A] book by this guy is cause for happiness.”
— Stephen King
“The novel’s deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you’ve closed the
book.”
— USA Today
“One of the best crime writers in the business.”
— Los Angeles Times
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