New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Vintage
1999 Jan-March
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Vintage
JAN-MARCH 1999
Neil Cross
Mr In-Between
Pbk published February 1999 by Vintage at £9.99
ISBN: 0099778718
Artwork by: Cover photograph: Mosby-Wolfe
Jon Bennet works for the Tattooed Man. He's the ideal employee: efficient, conscientious, utterly loyal to the man for whom he maims, for whom he kills - in whose name he teaches the meaning of loyalty and the consequences of betrayal. It's an existence that encourages solitariness and Jon has cultivated his aloneness almost to the point of solipsism until he encounters Andy and Cathy, old friends from school, now married with a child. Jon's ordered, disciplined life is suddenly threatened, not by violence but by the demands of friendship. In the world of the Tattooed Man love, sentimental love, is the greatest weakness of all - a weakness that must be punished…
Searingly powerful in both its brutality and its compassion, Mr In-Between is compelling, unsettling, astonishing.
Neil Cross was born in 1969. He lives in London and works in publishing.
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Don Grazia
American Skin
Pbk published January 1999 by Vintage at £6.99
ISBN: 0099272520
When things got too crazy with the cops I suggested to Timmy Penn that we go to college, but he just laughed and said skinheads were working-class for life. Aside from my dad, who was in prison at the time, I looked up to Tim more than anyone. Aside from my dad.'
When Alex Verdi returns home from school one day to find his home surrounded by armed police, he immediately thinks of the packages of marijuana stashed in his father's desk and decides to hide. At night, when the cops have left, he goes to the house and finds the afternoon paper in the driveway: his parents have been arrested and he is being 'sought for questioning'. It's definitely time to go. Taking his father's shotgun, he hitches to Chicago. When he meets Timmy Penn and his gang after a fight on a train, his new life as an American skinhead begins…
'At first sight De Grazia's novel seems inspired by gang movies like The Wild One to Rumblefish. Thoughts of Huckleberry Finn soon arise; also, far deeper links to the epics of Homer. De Grazia uses the narrative tradition of the roving heroic warrior not as an exercise in style, but to think differently on class, race and - specifically male identity.' Independent
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Ross King
Ex Libris
Pbk published February 1999 by Vintage at £5.99
ISBN: 0749395850
From the author of the acclaimed Domino, a gripping novel of murder, treachery
and espionage in seventeenth-century Europe.
Summoned to a remote country house, and asked to restore a magnificent library pillaged
during the English Civil War, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold slips from the surface of
1660s London into an underworld of spies and smugglers, ciphers and forgeries.
On learning that the founder of the library escaped from Bohemia with plunder from the
Imperial Library, Inchbold is cast into an elaborate intrigue. His fortunes hang on the
discovery of one of the stolen volumes, but his search reveals it is not what it seems and
that he has been made an unwitting player in a treacherous game.
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Dale Peck
Now It's Time to Say Goodbye
Pbk published March 1999 by Vintage at £5.99
ISBN: 0099275724
'Crackling dialogue and masterly storytelling...The action builds to a bravura climax, as heart-stopping as it is unexpected: Sunday Telegraph
'An utterly gripping thriller - crammed full of suspense, Gothic horror and often startling violence...This is the story of what happened one year when two New Yorkers arrived in (a small Kansas town called Galatea) and stumbled into that community's dark history of racism and greed. It is the story of the inexorable hold that time past exerts over time present and long shadow cast by ancient hurts, hatreds and secrets.' New York Times Book Review
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