C<strong>ON</strong>MAN RICHARD ASPLIN Conman is the story of young Neil Martin, a kindly family man. A bit geeky, a bit nerdy. If you met him, you would assume he runs a failing comic memorabilia store in London’s Soho. Which he does. In order to bail himself out of a huge stock-ruining, poster sopping basement flood, he needs to claim on his insurance. Which he would do – if he’d remembered to pay his premium. Richard Asplin is the author of two previous novels, T-Shirt & Genes and Gagged – A Thriller With Jokes. He is a lover of midperiod Woody Allen movies, Richard Dawkins, David Mamet, Elvis Presley, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Texas Hold’em, vintage guitars and his cat. Richard currently lives in London. Somewhere in the shadows, where High Fidelity meets The Usual Suspects, where David Mamet meets Ben Elton, Conman will keep you laughing, guessing and up all night until the last page is turned and the breathtaking truth is revealed. ‘The first blue-chip young novelist of the 21st Century. Catch him if you can’ – Tony Parsons Terrified of losing everything Neil reluctantly agrees to help Christopher – a passing confidence trickster – use his premises for a big sting. So the con is on and the trap is set. But things are never as they seem in the twilight world of the confidence man. And when Christopher’s real target is revealed, Neil finds himself plotting, switching, swapping and scamming for revenge, for redemption. And for his life. www.noexit.co.uk/titles/conman/ £7.99 PAPERBACK AVAILABLE MAY <strong>2009</strong> ‘B’ Format (198 X 129mm) 416pp RIGHTS: WORLD ISBN: 978-1-84243-294-5 THE – Jeff VanderMeer, Washington Post RESURRECTI<strong>ON</strong>IST Your only child is lost between this world and the next, and more than anything you want him back. A controversial doctor and a mysterious stranger claim they have the answer. Who do you trust? Are you willing to risk everything? Are you prepared to enter Limbo? Part classic noir thriller, part mind-bending fantasy, The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a territory where nothing is as it appears. It is the story of Sweeney, a druggist by trade, and his son, Danny, the victim of an accident that has left him in a persistent coma. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding, fortress-like Peck Clinic, whose doctors ‘A brilliantly tuned, mesmerizing labyrinth of a quasi-real world as only a master artist could draw it.’ – James Ellroy ‘Jack O’Connell has riffed on language, firecleansed genre conventions, and stripped the artifice from the modern noir novel, creating a body of work both exciting and entirely original.’ – George Pelecanos ‘A masterpiece, O’Connell’s tour de force has a dose of the uncertainty of Kafka, the fantasy of Bradbury, the crisp prose of Greene, and the noir of Chandler.’ – Andrew Gulli, Editor, Strand Magazine ‘Brilliant writing, original concepts, emotional resonance’ claim to have ‘resurrected’ other patients who were lost in the void. What Sweeney comes to realize, however, is that the real cure for his son’s condition may lie in Limbo, a fantasy comic book world into which his son had been drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue that envelops the clinic, Sweeney’s search for answers leads to sinister back alleys, brutal dead ends, and terrifying corners of darkness and mystery. No Exit Press publishes Jack O’Connell’s books in the UK: Box Nine Wireless The Skin Palace Word Made Flesh www.noexit.co.uk/titles/resurrectionist/ JACK O’C<strong>ON</strong>NELL Jack O’Connell is the author of four critically acclaimed novels, which have earned him something of a cult status. His work has been praised by James Ellroy, George Pelecanos, Neil Gaiman, Katherine Dunn and Jonathan Carroll, among others. £9.99 PAPERBACK WITH FLAPS AVAILABLE JUNE <strong>2009</strong> ‘B’ Format (198 X 129mm) with flaps 320pp RIGHTS: UK & COMM<strong>ON</strong>WEALTH EXCL. CANADA ISBN: 978-1-84243-306-5