Blood, Guts, & Whiskey

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Collected here for the first time in book form, the stories in "Blood, Guts, and Whiskey" are down and dirty, sexy and violent, pushing the envelope with no-holds barred writing and characters who pack a punch - and then some. Taking up where "Sex, Thugs and Rock & Roll and Hardcore Hardboiled" left off, this collection features nineteen outstanding stories from Thuglit.com "e-zine" and five new, original offerings from masters of suspense, plus an introduction from "New York Times" bestselling author Maz Allan. From scheming strippers to badass bikers, from avenging street angels to hellacious hit men, "Blood, Guts, and Whiskey" combines the hottest writers and the coolest themes in a collection that's everything a noir fan could want.From Publishers WeeklyTwenty-four gritty, violent stories of the mean streets slug their way through a third volume mostly culled from the Web zine Thuglit (after Hardcore Hardboiled and Sex, Thugs, and Rock & Roll). Max Allan Collins's concise yet wide-ranging introduction traces the tough guy school of short crime fiction from Hammett writing in the pulp Black Mask up to the current generation riffing off the films of Tarantino. Highlights include the Derringer Award–winning The Cost of Doing Business by Mike Penncavage, and a fistful of tales appearing for the first time anywhere from the likes of upcoming noir stars such as Dave Zeltserman (Bad Move) and Tom Piccirilli (The Return of Inspiration). For dedicated fans of the genre, this anthology is worth the money just for Death of a Rat, a prison yarn found in the files of the late Edward Bunker (aka Mr. Blue in Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs), iconic author of No Beast So Fierce. These stories are as bleak and exciting as a cold rainstorm. (June) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.