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ISBN: 1874061793
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Price: £4.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: A (178 x 111mm)
Extent: 288pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada, Australia & New Zealand
Pub. Date: August 1997

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lawrence Block is one of the most respected and bestselling names in mystery fiction and has won three Edgar and four Shamus awards. He is the author of the Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries and the Evan Tanner novels. All are published by No Exit Press. He is also the author of the outstanding Matthew Scudder series.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

He is 34 years old and hasn't slept a wink since a piece of shrapnel destroyed the sleep centre in his brain during the Korean War. Evan Tanner loves lost causes and beautiful women. The FBI has a thick file on him; the CIA taps his phone and a super-secret intelligence agency wants him to be their man!

Would you believe Evan Tanner in the guise of a slightly batty, butterfly collector? Trotting through the woods, flailing his net? You would? So did nearly everybody else. Everybody except the gang of guerrilla bandits who decided it was safer and saner to snare Tanner than to let Tanner snare butterflies. They stripped him, stuffed him into a cage and told him: "Upon the rising of the sun we will lead you to the chopping block and sever your head by driving the blade of an axe through your neck...."

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"...Lawrence Block's language - is dry and droll and elegant, like how Dashiell Hammett would write if he was still doing the Thin Man books today..." - Judith Freeman, The Guardian

"...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,

"...A master of crime fiction..." - Jonathan Kellerman,

"...Block is one of the best ..." - Washington Post

"...if you are coming new to Lawrence Block.....it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship..." - Vincent Banville, Irish Times