ON TAP FOR 2009 - Oldcastle Books

‘Edward Bunker is a true
original of American letters. His
books are criminal classics:
novels about criminals, written
by an ex-criminal, from the
unregenerately criminal
viewpoint’
– James Ellroy
If ever there was a great writer,
the late, great Bunker was one.’
– Independent
DEATH ROW
BREAKOUT AND
OTHER STORIES
Death Row Breakout brings together seven previously
unseen short stories that draw fully on Edward Bunker’s
incomparable experience of the U.S. prison system.
The title story Death Row Breakout details the routine of
being on Death Row, before exploding into action when the
plans for a breakout kick in. In L.A. Justice, a black man
falls foul of the law after a minor traffic incident and once
inside the prison system he finds it a labyrinth impossible
to escape from...
EDWARD
BUNKER
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Edward Bunker, Mr Blue in Reservoir
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Dogs, lived a life beyond the imaginings
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of most. At 40 he was a hardened criminal
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with a substantial prison record. Twentyfive
years later, he was hailed by his peers
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as America’s greatest living crime writer.
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Co-screenwriter of the Oscar nominated
movie, The Runaway Train, he appeared
in over 30 feature films, including Straight Time with Dustin
Hoffman, the film of his book No Beast So Fierce. Edward
Bunker died in 2005.
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As Salt River begins, two years have passed
since Turner’s lover, Val Bjorn, was shot down
as they sat together on the porch of his cabin.
Turner, now in his 50s, ex-cop, ex-con, Vietnam
veteran, former therapist and now Sheriff in
small town Cripple Creek, is trying to face a
truth head-on: ‘Sometimes you just have to
see how much music you can make with what
you have left.’ Then the sheriff’s long-lost son
comes ploughing down Main Street into City
Hall in a stolen car. And waiting at Turner’s
cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown. ‘They
think I killed someone,’ he says. Turner asks:
‘Did you?’ And Eldon responds: ‘I don’t know.’
Turner goes in search of a truth he’s not sure
he can live with...
James Sallis is a renowned poet, critic,
essayist, editor, translator, musicologist,
biographer and novelist, author of Cripple
Creek, Cypress Grove, Drive and a series of
books set in New Orleans featuring private
detective Lew Griffin. He lives in Arizona
with his wife Karyn.
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SALT
RIVER
JAMES SALLIS
‘Sallis writes crime novels that read
like literature’
– Los Angeles Times
‘Sallis is an unsung genius of
crime writing’
– Independent
‘James Sallis is a superb writer’
– Times
‘Sallis creates vivid images in very few
words and his taut, pared down prose
is distinctive and powerful’
– Sunday Telegraph
‘Sallis is always about good writing.
This little gem is a case in point.’
– Kirkus Review
‘sublime third novel to feature the
philosophical John Turner’
– one of Publishing Weekly’s
Best Books of the Year 2008
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ISBN: 978-1-84243-278-5