BUST, SLIDE and THE MAX
by KEN BRUEN and JASON STARR
“Some of the funniest dialogue this side of Elmore Leonard.”
— Otto Penzler
When Max Fisher hired Angela Petrakos as his assistant he was an unhappily married man. But the two of them had a plan to kill his wife and shack up together. Unfortunately, the hit man they hired had other ideas.
The fallout from this disastrous scheme will turn Max from an ordinary businessman into a would-be drug kingpin and catapult Angela from the streets of New York City to the slums of Ireland and the prisons of Greece.
Bust, Slide, and The Max are black comic masterpieces by two of the most acclaimed writers working in the crime fiction genre. Between them, Bruen and Starr have been nominated for every major award in the field, and their collaborations for Hard Case Crime have won raves from publications ranging from the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Sun to Entertainment Weekly. If you enjoyed Fake I.D., you won’t want to miss this very different side of Jason Starr’s dark vision...