Lights Out
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Fom the Anthony Award-winning author of THE FOLLOWER
What if your dreams don’t come true?
Ryan Rossetti and Jake Thomas were the two Major League-bound rivals on their high school baseball team, until Ryan blew out his pitching arm and landed a ten-dollar-an-hour life as a house painter. Lucky Jake made it all the way, and he and his 10 million dollar signing bonus are heading back for a publicity-motivated homecoming weekend.
But he’s got a nasty surprise in store: Ryan is involved in an intense, addictive relationship with Jake’s fiancé Christina, who now faces a choice between love in a Brooklyn tenement or a heartless marriage on Easy Street. None of the three have any idea what’s about to play out on the streets they once called home.
PRAISE FOR JASON STARR’S LIGHTS OUT
“Sizzles with street-wise dialogue and furious emotional energy.”
Library Journal
“Wickedly entertaining.”
Booklist
“A fast, furious page-turner from the git-go. Starr’s got a hip style and an ear for crackling dialogue.”
Jeffery Deaver
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this strangely fascinating riff off classic noir, baseball slugger Jake Thomas gets a hero's welcome on a quick trip home to Canarsie. With millions in endorsements on the line, he's anxious to announce a wedding date with his high school sweetheart, Christina, hoping to counteract a statutory rape claim that's about to go public. But his fianc e has been seeing former pitcher Ryan Rossetti, who blew out his arm and now works a dead-end job as a house painter. Insanely jealous of the "J.T. fever" sweeping the hood, the self-involved Ryan is determined to keep Christina for himself. Starr (Twisted City) is a master at portraying Brooklyn as a dark corner of hell (and even gives genre fans a taste of one of the sexual obsessions of past noir master David Goodis), but J.T and Ryan prove almost too unpleasant to take. When the ex-con Saiquan comes into play, riding along for some payback on a gang shooting, the plot jumps into overdrive and heads mercilessly for Starr's always bleak finish line. Author tour.
