JACK TAYLOR NOVELS BRANT NOVELS CRIME NOVELS MAX & ANGELA NOVELS The Max Slide Bust BUST US NOMINATED FOR THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST PAPERBACK NOVEL OF THE YEAR! 5 IMPORTANT LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST: 1. When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath. 2. Drano is not the best tool for getting rid of a dead body. 3. Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure. 4. A curly blond wig isn't much of a disguise. 5. Secrets can kill. Read more about it here. Buy the book from Amazon.com or an independent bookstore. PRAISE "Tense, sometimes brutal, often funny [and] vividly fresh...This first-time collaboration between Irish hard-boiler Bruen (The Guards) and Brooklyn noirist Starr (Cold Caller) reads seamlessly—and mercilessly."    —Entertainment Weekly "A full-tilt, rocking homage to noir novels of the 1950s, taking full advantage of the neo-pulp Hard Case Crime imprint...A seamless blend of Bruen's dead-on Irish underworld and Starr's hellish vision of the Big Apple, Hard Case's latest release is smart, trashy fun, fulfilling ably the series' irresistible promise."    —Publishers Weekly "One of the year's most darkly satisfying and electric noir novels...this is one of the top guilty pleasures of the year."    —Chicago Sun-Times "Two of the century's best thriller writers have joined forces to bring a postmodern twist to the black heart of noir fiction. Grade: A."    —Rocky Mountain News "A really black comedy...I pretty much laughed my ass off."    —Sarah Weinman (Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind) "Really good...very violent and very funny."    —Jenny Davidson (Light Reading) "The prose reads like a dream. Fast paced and bursting with energy...Hard Case Crime have released some of the best new novels of the past few years. They've given us some amazing reprints of classic crime. But this book, Bust, has just upped the ante once more."    —Crime Scene Scotland "Crosses and double-crosses, miscalculations and blunders, and plenty of dead bodies...For those who like the bungling-criminal genre, this is good fun."    —Booklist "Fasten your seat belts, and enjoy the bumpy ride of double- and triple-crosses, blackmail, and murder. If Quentin Tarantino is looking for another movie project, this novel with its mix of shocking violence and black comedy would be the perfect candidate. Highly recommended as a terrific summer read."    —Library Journal