New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Atlantic Books 08 July-Sept
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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Atlantic Books JULY-SEPT 08

Joe McGinniss The Delivery Man Pbk published July 2008 by Atlantic Books at £9.99 ISBN: 1843547317


This is an exhilarating debut novel about today's Lost Generation, and a love story set against the surreal excess of Las Vegas. 'The Delivery Man is one of the most powerful novels by a young writer I've read in years' - Bret Easton Ellis.Young, good-looking, newly graduated from art college: Chase has everything going for him. Okay, so he's back in Vegas. But he plans to leave it behind, hook up with his girlfriend in California, and become an artist. Or at least, that's what he thinks...Las Vegas is a city of bright lights and dreams-come-true. But for Chase it's the scene of nightmares. When he finds out that his ever-entrancing first love, Michele, is working as a call-girl at an escort service, he also discovers that old feelings die hard. He has to be near her, to protect her, and so, recklessly, he agrees to become her driver - delivering her and the other girls to the condos and hotel suites of men all over town. At first they're on top of the world and it seems they're going to win big. But as the stakes are raised, things quickly spiral out of control. Everything around him screams run. And, except for Michele and the tragic secret that haunts them both, he might.
But she's like a drug to him, his love for her compelling him to stay, even in the face of impending danger.Sexy, soulful and charging towards its nightmarish conclusion, "The Delivery Man" is a love story for our times.

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Christopher G Moore Spirit House: A Vincent Calvino Crime Novel Pbk published July 2008 by Atlantic Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1843547910

See Review by Bernard Knight ex Home Office Pathologist and author of the highly acclaimed Crowner John series
The Bangkok police have a confession from a nineteen-year-old drug addict admitting to the murder of the British computer geek (though judging from the bruises on the suspect's face at the press conference, it appears they may have used more than a little gentle persuasion to get it). Case closed? Apparently so: only there are some loose ends that the police and just about everyone else is happy to overlook. Everyone except Vincent Calvino.Calvino's investigations into Hoadly's murder pitch him into Bangkok's darkest heart. From the red-light district of Patpong to the slums of Klong Toey, Vincent must navigate a world of gangsters, godfathers and crooked police, and try to outwit - and outrun - the professional hit men who have orders to stop him. It seems that this former public schoolboy kept some very dubious company. Featuring drug addicts, dope dealers, fortune tellers, and high-class call girls,
"The Spirit House" is a hard-boiled page-turner that brings the contradictions of Bangkok to disturbing, exhilarating, life.

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Matt Rees The Saladin Murders (Omar Yussef Mystery Series) Pbk published July 2008 by Atlantic Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1843546485

See Review by Ian Morson Author of Falconer books and short listed for 1999 Ellis Peters Historical Crime Dagger

Omar Yussef, teacher-turned-detective, is sent to the troubled Gaza Strip to carry out a routine school inspection. There, he learns that a fellow teacher has been arrested, and, instinctively recognizing the signs of grave injustice, he sets out to investigate.The person responsible for the teacher's arrest is Colonel al-Fara, the most powerful - and dangerous - man in Gaza, and Omar's friends urge him not to intervene. But Omar confronts the colonel, and soon finds himself caught in a ruthless power struggle. When Omar's colleague is kidnapped and another is murdered, he begins to understand why people tell him that, in lawless Gaza, all crimes are connected. Omar is faced with the terrible realisation that only he can save his colleague - and himself.

Matt Rees lives in Jerusalem. Major authors have compared his writing with the work of Graham Greene, John Le Carre, Georges Simenon and Henning Mankell. The French magazine L'Express calls him "the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine." As a journalist, Rees covered the Middle East for over a decade. He was Time magazine's Jerusalem bureau chief from 2000 until 2006, writing award-winning stories about the Palestinian intifada. He also was Middle East correspondent for The Scotsman and Newsweek.

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Neal Stephenson Anathem Published September 2008 by Atlantic Books at £18.99 ISBN: 1843549158

Here is another brilliantly original novel from the cult author of "Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon".Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians. There, he and his cohorts are sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable "saecular" world, an endless landscape of casinos and megastores that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, dark ages and renaissances, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe. And, one by one, Raz and his friends, mentors, and teachers are summoned forth without warning into the unknown.

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Brian Thompson The Widow's Secret Published July 2008 by Atlantic Books at £12.99 ISBN: 1843547171
Bella Wallis discovers her plots in the alley ways, drawing rooms and dirty laundry of Victorian London. Under the pen name Henry Ellis Margam she takes revenge upon the scoundrels that litter London Society by destroying them - in print.So when Bella discovers a crested cigar case at the scene of a murdered prostitute she and her friends are determined to solve the mystery and to avenge the wretched girl's death. But the owner of the coat of arms is a dangerous and powerful man, and the world he inhabits far murkier than Bella could ever have imagined. With cruelty and violence threatening to engulf her, she plots one last attempt to expose and denounce the murderer. Bella Wallis, widow and writer, must put pen to paper before her nemesis silences her for ever.

Brian Thompson was born in London in 1935 and now lives in Oxford. He has written two award-winning volumes of memoir: Keeping Mum (2006), winner of the Costa Prize for Biography and the PEN/Ackerley Prize, and Clever Girl (2007), longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

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