Anthony Award Winner!
New Introduction by Eisner Award winning writer, Ed Brubaker, author of Criminal, Fatale and Captain America: Winter Soldier!
One of Publishers Weekly top ten noir novels of all time!
Bonus chapters of Starr's Barry Award winning novel Tough Luck and Starr's novel Hard Feelings, the first ever Vintage Crime original novel!
Times are tough for David Miller, a journalist for a second-rate financial magazine who hates his boss, is tired of supporting his girlfriend's partying lifestyle, and recently lost his sister to cancer. But things are about to get much worse. After he loses his wallet in a midtown bar, he finds himself being blackmailed by junkies, lying to his family and friends, and stumbling into a crime that may cost him his life.
"Jason Starr is the real deal in a world where a lot of people are faking it." – Laura Lippman
"Jason Starr has the New York sound, energy, dialog that's on the beat." – Elmore Leonard
"(A) slick noir novel... Starr is such a polished writer that once you start reading it's painful to tear yourself away." – John Freeman, Time Out New York