USA Noir: Best of the Akashic Noir Series

Джеффри Дивер, Майкл Коннелли, Лоуренс Блок, Деннис Лихэйн, Джордж Пелеканос, Джойс Кэрол Оутс, Т. Джефферсон Паркер, Ли Чайлд, Дон Уинслоу, Джонатан Сафран Фоер, Рид Фаррел Коулмен, Луис Альберто Урреа, С. Дж. Розан, Johnny Temple, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, Elyssa East, Maggie Estep, J. Malcolm Garcia, Pete Hamill, Terrance Hayes, Байо Оджикуту, Лаура Липман, Сьюзен Стрейт, Уильям Кент Крюгер, Меган Эббот, Джеймс У. Холл, Джулия Смит, Тим МакЛафлин, Пир Ротенберг, Тим Бродерик, Асали Соломон, Бхарти Кирхнер, Карен Карбо, Лиза Сэндлин, Джозеф Брушак, Джером Черин, Доменик Стансберри, Джон О'Брайен

Серия: Akashic Noir

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In my early years as a book publisher, I got a call one Saturday from one of our authors asking me to drop by his place for “a smoke.” I politely declined as I had a full day planned. “But Johnny,” the author persisted, “I have some really good smoke.” My curiosity piqued, I swung by, but was a bit perplexed to be greeted with suspicion at the author’s door by an unhinged whore and her near-nude john. The author rumbled over and ushered me in, promptly sitting me down on a smelly couch and assuring the others I wasn’t a problem. Moments later, the john produced a crack pipe to resume the party I had evidently interrupted. This wasn’t quite the smoke I’d envisaged, so I gracefully excused myself after a few (sober) minutes. I scurried home pondering the author’s notion that it was somehow appropriate to invite his publisher to a crack party.

It may not have been appropriate, but it sure was noir.

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