No Exit Press Authors
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Jakob Arjouni
'Jakob Arjouni writes the best urban thrillers since Raymond Chandler...'
John Ashbrook
'Electrifying, intelligent, violent and vibrant, the Crime Film has closely reflected its times.'
Marc Behm
'A quest for grace, a stone classic noir.' - Crime Time
Lawrence Block
'Lawrence Block is a master of crime fiction.' - Jonathan Kellerman
D W Buffa
'..a fast moving, ingenious, thoroughly gripping legal thriller...' - Publishers Weekly
Edward Bunker
'The "angel dust" of crime fiction: thrillingly violent and addictive, surging with
exhilaration and fear.' - London Evening Standard
Richard Condon
'Brilliant' - New Yorker
Paul Duncan
'The finest interview I've ever had...' - James Sallis
J. Gregory Dunne
'A crackling thriller, vivid, scabrous and poignant...' - Uncut
Dan Fesperman
'Fesperman has produced a debut novel of intense power...' - The Times
Anthony Frewin
'A forceful, striking thriller' - Time Out
Ira Genberg
'The best debut legal thriller since Presumed Innocent' - Time Out
Joseph Hansen
'Joseph Hansen is quite simply the most exciting and effective writer of the
classic California private-eye novel working today.' - Los Angeles Times
Sparkle Hayter
'Sparkle's debut really is sparkling with lots of laughs and superior
bitchiness' - London Daily Telegraph
George V Higgins
'He is still the best' - John Grisham
William Hjortsberg
'A terrific book...I've never read anything remotely like it...' - Stephen King
Robert Leininger
'My advice on the book is simple: Buy it if you can, steal it if you have to,
but be sure to read it.' - Jeremiah Healey
Michael Lewin
'Fast, funny, brilliant' - Wall Street Journal
Steve Lopez
'Steve Lopez writes from the heart and the gut.' - Tim O'Brien
Arthur Lyons
'Lyons is the author setting the standards for today's hard-boiled novel.' - Mystery Magazine
Jesse May
'Few poker players can write and even fewer can play poker. Jesse May is a master of both infernal arts.' - Anthony Holden
Judy Mercer
'I rate this novel very highly...' - The Bookseller
John Milne
'John Milne is one of the truest crime writers we have...' - Nicholas Shakespeare
Kem Nunn
'Hammett, Chandler, James Cain and Ross MacDonald, Kem Nunn has surpassed
them all' - L.A.Times
Jack O'Connell
'Hyper-real noir. A grotesque romance about genocide, language, bibliomania,
doubt, obsession, worms, epidermis and sanctuary!' - James Ellroy
Robert B. Parker
'The best writer of this kind of fiction in the busines today' - New Republic
William D Pease
'Fierce, intricately plotted, with rich and complex characters and
sharply authentic settings...' - Crime Time
Gary Phillips
'...traverses the terrain of the boosters and mercenaries who
run Blade Runnerville...' - Mike Phillips
Joe Quirk
'Ultra-fast and hip as they come... a sensational thriller.' - Howard Marks
James Sallis
'What Chester Himes did for Harlem... and Walter Mosley is now
doing for Los Angeles, James Sallis is doing for New Orleans.' - New York Times Book Review
Wang Shuo
'China's Kerouac' - New York Times
Jason Starr
'Cool, deadpan, a rollercoaster ride to hell' - The London Guardian
Doug Swanson
'Doug Swanson does Dallas the way Robert Parker does Boston--from the bottom up' - Carl Hiaasen
Mark Timlin
'A pure pulp vision, closer to Spillane than Chandler'
Carolyn Wheat
'Well-nigh perfect...a natural storyteller' - Kirkus
Fred Willard
'A dazzling debut novel, a rollercoaster ride through an underworld
filled with wonderfully skewed characters...' - William Diehl
Charles Willeford
'...better than Hall and Hiaasen and as good as Elmore Leonard at his best.' - Time Out
William Wolf
'Original and hilarious' -
Publishers Weekly
Daniel Woodrell
'Woodrell alternates between reaming the language with a
dry corncob and practising a particularly skilful kind of literary
cabinetwork...' - E. Annie Proulx
