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    <![CDATA[Bust (Hard Case Crime #20)]]>
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    <![CDATA[<strong>5 IMPORTANT LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST:</strong><br/><br/>1. When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a psychopath.<br/><br/>2. Drano is not the best tool for getting rid of a dead body.<br/><br/>3. Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure.<br/><br/>4. A curly blond wig isn’t much of a disguise.<br/><br/>5. Secrets can kill.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Ken Bruen]]></name>
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    <![CDATA[Slide (Hard Case Crime #36)]]>
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    <![CDATA[Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer and Angela’s back in Ireland, hooking up with a would-be record-setter…in the field of serial killing. Will their paths cross again? What do you think?]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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    <![CDATA[The Max (Hard Case Crime #47)]]>
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    <![CDATA[When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law—Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos...]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2008</published>
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    <![CDATA[Twisted City]]>
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    <![CDATA[From the acclaimed noir novelist Jason Starr comes this savage portrait of a misanthropic man stuck in a New York nightmare. Written in caustic, streamlined prose, <strong>Twisted City</strong> is a chilling depiction of how quickly one's life can take a turn for the worst.<br/><br/>Times are tough for David Miller, a journalist for a second-rate financial magazine who hates his boss, is tired of supporting his girlfriend's partying lifestyle, and recently lost his sister to cancer. But things are about to get much worse. When he loses his wallet in a midtown bar, he is launched into a world where he finds himself being blackmailed by junkies, lying to his friends and family, and stumbling into a crime that may cost him his life.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Hard Feelings]]>
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    <![CDATA[Things aren’t going so well for Richie Segal. His prospects at the job are pretty miserable and, what’s more humiliating, his wife’s prospects at her job are pretty good. Richie knows he’s a good salesman, but he just can’t seem to land an account. And he’s starting to drink again. And worry about whether Paula’s seeing that old high school flame, or maybe someone new. It’s a little early, at thirty-four, for a mid-life crisis, but that’s pretty much what it feels like. And there’re those unwelcome memories of the neighborhood bully, Michael Rudnick and what he did to Richie when he was thirteen. Richie Segal’s feeling, well, abused.<br/><br/>Just when Richie’s about as low as he can get, he runs into Rudnick on the street and knows exactly what he needs to do.  And suddenly things seem to be going much better. That is until they get much, much worse. In the classic tradition of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain, <strong>Hard Feelings</strong> is novel that lets us into the mind of an ordinary guy capable of things that even he couldn’t have imagined.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>2002</published>
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    <![CDATA[Fake I.D. (Hard Case Crime #56)]]>
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    <![CDATA[A New York bar bouncer with dreams of being more, Tommy Russo jumps at the chance to join a horse-owning syndicate. But to do so he'll have to pony up $10,000--and that's money he hasn't got. So what's an ambitious young man to do? Anything he has to...    <p>First U.S. publication ever!   By the Barry and Anthony Award-winning author of THE FOLLOWER, and co-author (with Ken Bruen) of BUST, SLIDE, and THE MAX    <p>Four of Starr's novels have been optioned for the movies   David Thompson of Houston's Murder By the Book on FAKE I.D.: &quot;Jason Starr--in his first solo Hard Case Crime appearance--shows why he's considered one of THE noir novelists of his generation, and FAKE I.D. is definitely among my favorite of Starr's books!&quot;</p></p>]]>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
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  </authors>  <published>2000</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Tough Luck]]>
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    <![CDATA[Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He&#8217;s got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to help his sick dad. But Mickey&#8217;s got a problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey to place bets for him and Angelo keeps losing. As Angelo gets further in the hole, his bad luck is turning out to be Mickey&#8217;s too.<br/><br/>Now Mickey&#8217;s got his bookie after him and Angelo&#8217;s showing him the butt of his pistol rather than paying him back. So when his best friend, Chris, asks Mickey to join him on a can&#8217;t-lose caper, Mickey decides to go along. But, surefire schemes often have a way of backfiring, and this one is sending Mickey into an uncharted part of Brooklyn, where fish like Chris and Mickey have trouble just staying alive.]]>
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  </authors>  <published>2003</published>
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        <book>
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  <title>
    <![CDATA[Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir]]>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>28</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[Hard-boiled story collection, featuring original ''geezer noir'' tales by Jeff Abbott, Megan Abbott, Charles Ardai, Ray Banks, Mark Billingham, Steve Brewer, Ken Bruen, Milton Burton, Reed Farrel Coleman, Colin Cotterill, Bill Crider, Sean Doolittle, Victor Gischler, Allan Guthrie, John Harvey, Simon Kernick, Laura Lippman, Stuart MacBride, Donna Moore, ZoÃ« Sharp, Jenny Siler, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Duane Swierczynski, Robert Ward, Sarah Weinman and Dave White.]]>
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    <id>97136</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Duane Swierczynski]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.73</average_rating>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
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    <author>
    <id>60459</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Laura Lippman]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/60459.Laura_Lippman]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.52</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>7785</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1532</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2006</published>
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        <book>
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    <![CDATA[Cold Caller (Norton Paperback)]]>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[A ravingly readable tale of a downwardly mobile yuppie who'll just kill to get ahead. Think Jim Thompson with an MBA . . . Once Bill Moss was a rising VP at a topflight ad agency, but now he works as a &quot;cold caller&quot; at a telemarketing firm in the Times Square area. He's got a bad case of the urban blues. Still, he's good at his work and (he thinks) about to be promoted, when out of the blue he's fired. So Bill snaps . . . and the next thing he knows he has a dead supervisor on his hands and problems no career counselor can help him with. In Cold Caller Jason Starr retools the James M. Cain novel of cynical suspense and murder for the fiber-optic age.]]>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>1997</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">845876</id>
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  <isbn13>9780312359744</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">8</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Follower]]>
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  <average_rating>3.52</average_rating>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In New York City&#8217;s work hard, play harder singles scene, a young woman looking for love can find herself the object of a deadly obsession. <br/><br/>With each meaningless date and disappointing new boyfriend, Katie Porter is becoming more and more disillusioned. No matter how wide a net she casts she can't seem to find a guy who really understands her.  But someone thinks she's special - very special. And he's following her... But it's not her boyfriend, Andy. The frat-boy who never grew up is too busy working out how far Katie will go and if her friends are hot, to stop and think whether Katie's 'the one'. But someone's already decided she is - and he's watching her. <br/> <br/>Peter sees Katie at the gym. He sees her at the coffee bar she stops at on the way to work. In fact, he sees her almost everywhere, as he quietly follows her. But most of all, he sees her in his plans for the future. He's got the proposal worked out, he's even got the ring and their happy home already bought. After all, he's had enough time to plan things to perfection - he grew up in the same small town. Surely, after all these years, he can't let anything stand in his way.<br/> <br/>Combining his trademark razor-sharp dialogue, black humor and superb storytelling talent, <em>The Follower</em> is Jason Starr's most suspenseful novel yet. <br/> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
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    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
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  </authors>  <published>2007</published>
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        <book>
  <id type="integer">845877</id>
  <isbn>0312359721</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780312359720</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">4</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Lights Out (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)]]>
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  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845877.Lights_Out</link>
  <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>22</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&#8220;<em>Lights Out </em>is a fast, furious page-turner. This book is a huge treat.&#8221;---Jeffery Deaver, author of <em>The Cold Moon: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel</em>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;<em></em> &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;From Barry and Anthony Award-winning author Jason Starr comes a story of two friends divided by chance and reunited during a long Brooklyn weekend that will change both of their lives forever. Ryan Rossetti and Jake Thomas were the two Major League-bound rivals on their high school baseball team, heading straight into history as the first two of Canarsie&#8217;s favorite sons to make it out and make it big. Until Ryan hurt 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 ten-million-dollar signing bonus are heading back for a publicity-motivated homecoming weekend that has all of Brooklyn waiting to explode in celebration.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But he&#8217;s got a nasty surprise in store: Ryan is involved in an intense, addictive relationship with Jake&#8217;s fiancée Christina, who now faces a choice between love in a Brooklyn tenement or a heartless marriage on Easy Street. Neither man, nor the woman who now stands between them, has any idea what&#8217;s about to play out in the streets they once all called home. <em>Lights Out</em> is vintage Jason Starr, a razor-sharp crime novel that brilliantly combines biting social satire, explosive suspense, and honest, revealing human drama.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35697.Jason_Starr]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2006</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6431249</id>
  <isbn>0312387067</isbn>
  <isbn13>9780312387068</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">7</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Panic Attack]]>
  </title>
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  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1240864044s/6431249.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6431249-panic-attack</link>
  <average_rating>3.25</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>24</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;<p><em>An intruder, a desperate struggle, a family under siege: This is Jason Starr’s most provocative and suspenseful novel to date.</em></p><p>Dr. Adam Bloom has the perfect life. He’s financially secure and lives in a luxurious house with his wife, Dana, and their twenty-two-year-old daughter, Marissa, a recent college graduate. Late one night, his daughter wakes him up and says, “Somebody’s downstairs.” Adam uses his gun to kill one of the unarmed intruders, but the other escapes. From that moment on, everyone’s life in the Bloom household will never be the same.</p><p>Adam doesn’t feel safe, not with the other intruder out there somewhere, knowing where he lives. Dana suggests moving, but Adam has lived in the house all his life and he doesn’t want to run away. As the family recovers from the break-in and the Blooms’ already rocky relationship rapidly falls apart, Marissa meets a young, talented artist named Xan. Adam feels that something’s not quite right with Xan, but his daughter ignores his warnings and falls deeply in love with him. When suspicious things start happening to the Blooms all over again, Adam realizes that his first instinct about Xan was probably dead on.</p><p>With <em>Panic Attack</em>, Jason Starr is at his best, crafting a harrowing page-turner that will blow readers away.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <author>
    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
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    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35697.Jason_Starr]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2009</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">845888</id>
  <isbn>1568581610</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781568581613</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">2</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Nothing Personal]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178850560m/845888.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178850560s/845888.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845888.Nothing_Personal</link>
  <average_rating>3.85</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>13</ratings_count>
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    <![CDATA[With his debut novel, <em>Cold Caller</em>, Jason Starr emerged on the mystery scene as heir to the bleakly cynical Jim Thompson (<em>The Grifters</em>) and James M. Cain (<em>Double Indemnity</em>, <em>The Postman Always Rings Twice</em>). His follow-up effort, <em>Nothing Personal</em>, confirms Starr's position at the cutting edge of the revival of classic American noir, tracing in sharp relief lives of extinguished opportunity and of petty troubles that accumulate, somehow, into major crimes. <p> Thus it is that hapless Joey DePino, saddled with an incurable gambler's optimism--but even worse gambler's luck--finds himself threatened with the deadly wrath of irate and unpaid bookies. What to do? Drift into an inept plan to kidnap Jessica Sussman, that's what. Joey's wife Maureen and Jessica's mother Leslie were childhood friends, and Joey has endured enough anemic evenings at the Sussman's Upper East Side apartment in New York to feel entitled to a little ransom retribution. Too bad for him that David Sussman, Jessica's father, is currently trying to end an affair with a psychopathic coworker. Hell hath no fury, as everybody knows, and the result is a tangled mess of motive, mistaken identity, and murder. The lives of the Sussmans and the DePinos--so different on their (respectively) gilt-edged and tattered surfaces--form parallel strands intertwining and accelerating toward a dark nadir.<p> As a genre, noir is an acquired taste: be warned that Starr tends to forsake character development and verisimilitude for an irony outlined in exceedingly broad strokes. You may find yourself getting heartily sick of both the Sussmans and the DePinos--but take comfort in the fact that Starr himself has an equally low opinion of his characters, and is only too ready to offer them up, in the finale, as grist for a bitingly sharp dinner-party mill. <em>--Kelly Flynn</em> </p></p>]]>
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    <author>
    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35697.Jason_Starr]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1998</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6701532</id>
  <isbn>1401212867</isbn>
  <isbn13>9781401212865</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">1</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[The Chill HC]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6701532-the-chill-hc</link>
  <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[A modern thriller set in New York City, THE CHILL is steeped in Irish mythology. A broken-down cop tracks a seductive killer who possesses the supernatural - and very deadly - power known as &quot;The Chill.&quot; It's a power that provides her eternal life by absorbing the sexual energy of her victims. And he may be the next victim!]]>
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    <author>
    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35697.Jason_Starr]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>3017979</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Mick Bertilorenzi]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3017979.Mick_Bertilorenzi]]></link>
    <average_rating>4.50</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2010</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">1600732</id>
  <isbn>3257062745</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783257062748</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Die letzte Wette]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185706713m/1600732.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185706713s/1600732.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1600732.Die_letzte_Wette</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
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    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35697.Jason_Starr]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2001</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6288303</id>
  <isbn>3257061870</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783257061871</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Top Job]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288303.Top_Job</link>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[ Jason Starrs <em>Top Job</em> ist ein rabenschwarzer Thriller aus dem New Yorker Milieu. Bill Moss, ein glückloser Jungakademiker, fristet ein trostloses Dasein als unterbezahlter Telefonverkäufer. Mobbing und Rassismus wegen geringster Vergehen ist bei A.C.A. an der Tagesordnung. Die Schikanen durch die beiden Chefs Ed und Mike sind gewuerzt mit Drohungen, die Provisionen einzubehalten, und rassistischen Ausbruechen.<p>  Im Land der unbegrenzten Moeglichkeiten ticken die Uhren etwas anders als hierzulande. Mobbing gewinnt eine andere Dimension, wenn Schwarz oder Weiss zur Existenzfrage wird und erst ein Job eine Art Daseinsberechtigung verleiht. Bill Moss, dessen juedische Freundin Julie mehr Geld als er verdient, ist sich dessen bewusst und kaempft mit viel Ehrgeiz gegen Julies unterschwellige Vorwuerfe, dass er nur Telefonverkaeufer sei, an.<p>  Nach einer unerwarteten Befoerderung bei A.C.A. zum Assistenten von Ed erfaehrt Bill ein Zwischenhoch, das aber nur von kurzer Dauer ist. Die Vergangenheit holt ihn ein. Erneut mit der Kündigung konfrontiert, dreht Bill Moss durch. Die Spirale der Gewalt, der skrupellosen Durchsetzung seiner beruflichen Ziele, wird zum nicht mehr aufzuhaltenden Motor, der sich schneller und schneller bis hin zum dramatischen <em>Grande Finale</em> dreht.<p>  Der junge Autor Jason Starr, der selbst als Telefonverkaeufer in den USA arbeitet, hat mit seinem Debut bewiesen, daß er ein würdiger Nachfolger der Kriminalschriftsteller der schwarzen Serie ist. Weitere Romane aus seiner Hand duerften ein Garant für hochbrisante Spannung werden. <em>--Corinna S. Heyn</em></p></p></p>]]>
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<authors>
    <author>
    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35697.Jason_Starr]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>1998</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6548626</id>
  <isbn>3866107277</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783866107274</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Crack]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6548626-crack</link>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>63807</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Ken Bruen]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254400915p5/63807.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1254400915p2/63807.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/63807.Ken_Bruen]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.89</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>2333</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>383</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35697.Jason_Starr]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>2938005</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Reiner Schöne (Sprecher)]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2938005.Reiner_Sch_ne_Sprecher_]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>2</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>0</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2009</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6545000</id>
  <isbn>3257234783</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783257234787</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Hard Feelings.]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6545000-hard-feelings</link>
  <average_rating>1.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[ Mit <em>Hard Feelings</em> ist Jason Starr einer der besten Psychothriller der letzten Jahre gelungen. Seine beklemmende Geschichte des chronisch erfolglosen Computerverkäufers Richard Segal, der sich plötzlich mit schrecklichen Erinnerungen aus seiner Kindheit konfrontiert sieht, geht tief unter die Haut.<p>  Mit seiner beruflichen Erfolglosigkeit alleine könnte Richard Segal einigermaßen leben, vor allem auch, weil er sie für vorübergehend hält. Doch vieles kommt zusammen und wirft ihn aus seiner mühsam ausbalancierten Bahn. Ehefrau Paula zum Beispiel macht richtig Karriere. Zudem wird Segal das Gefühl nicht los, dass sie hinter seinem Rücken Affären hat. Immer häufiger greift er in seiner Unsicherheit zum Alkohol, arbeitet unzuverlässig, versäumt Termine und wird von seinem Chef abgemahnt. Paula gegenüber reagiert er abwechselnd aggressiv und reumütig.<p>  In dieser Situation begegnet er Michael Rudnick, einem ehemaligen Nachbarsjungen, der den jüngeren Richard regelmäßig sexuell missbraucht hatte. Auf Rudnick nun fokussiert Segal all seinen Hass, seine Frustration, seinen Überdruss. Er rückt dem Anwalt in dessen Büro auf die Pelle, stellt ihn zur Rede und bedroht ihn. Kurze Zeit später wird Rudnick auf einem abgelegenen Parkplatz ermordet. Immer tiefer verstrickt sich Segal in ein Gespinst aus Lügen, Widersprüchen und Rechtfertigungen. Er wird gefeuert, seine Frau will ihn verlassen, die Polizei verdächtigt ihn. Schließlich verschwindet Paula Segal spurlos.<p>  Jason Starr nimmt den Leser mit auf eine höchst beunruhigende Reise ins Innere einer gespaltenen Persönlichkeit. Seine fabelhafte Erzähltechnik erzeugt ein nervenaufreibendes Unbehagen, man leidet mit dem zweifelhaften Helden, bangt um ihn, verurteilt ihn und hofft schließlich doch wieder mit ihm. Es braucht nicht betont zu werden, dass Starr kein versöhnliches Finale im Sinn hat. Im Gegenteil. Alles kommt noch viel grauenvoller und überraschender am Schluss dieses kleinen Meisterwerks, als man es für möglich gehalten hätte. <em>--Ulrich Deurer</em></p></p></p>]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35697.Jason_Starr]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>522592</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Bernhard Robben]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/522592.Bernhard_Robben]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.67</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>15</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>1</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2005</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">6545002</id>
  <isbn>3257234333</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783257234336</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Ein wirklich netter Typ]]>
  </title>
  <image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg</image_url>
  <small_image_url>http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg</small_image_url>
  <link>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6545002-ein-wirklich-netter-typ</link>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <description>
    <![CDATA[]]>
  </description>
<authors>
    <author>
    <id>35697</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Jason Starr]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/35697.Jason_Starr]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.68</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>629</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>126</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
    <author>
    <id>551429</id>
        <name><![CDATA[Hans M. Herzog]]></name>
    <image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-200x266.jpg]]></image_url>
    <small_image_url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]]></small_image_url>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/551429.Hans_M_Herzog]]></link>
    <average_rating>3.84</average_rating>
    <ratings_count>32</ratings_count>
    <text_reviews_count>3</text_reviews_count>
  </author>
  </authors>  <published>2004</published>
</book>

        <book>
  <id type="integer">845892</id>
  <isbn>3257063156</isbn>
  <isbn13>9783257063158</isbn13>
  <text_reviews_count type="integer">0</text_reviews_count>
  <title>
    <![CDATA[Ein wirklich netter Typ.]]>
  </title>
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    <![CDATA[ Jason Starrs <em>Top Job</em> ist ein rabenschwarzer Thriller aus dem New Yorker Milieu. Bill Moss, ein glückloser Jungakademiker, fristet ein trostloses Dasein als unterbezahlter Telefonverkäufer. Mobbing und Rassismus wegen geringster Vergehen ist bei A.C.A. an der Tagesordnung. Die Schikanen durch die beiden Chefs Ed und Mike sind gewuerzt mit Drohungen, die Provisionen einzubehalten, und rassistischen Ausbruechen.<p>  Im Land der unbegrenzten Moeglichkeiten ticken die Uhren etwas anders als hierzulande. Mobbing gewinnt eine andere Dimension, wenn Schwarz oder Weiss zur Existenzfrage wird und erst ein Job eine Art Daseinsberechtigung verleiht. Bill Moss, dessen juedische Freundin Julie mehr Geld als er verdient, ist sich dessen bewusst und kaempft mit viel Ehrgeiz gegen Julies unterschwellige Vorwuerfe, dass er nur Telefonverkaeufer sei, an.<p>  Nach einer unerwarteten Befoerderung bei A.C.A. zum Assistenten von Ed erfaehrt Bill ein Zwischenhoch, das aber nur von kurzer Dauer ist. Die Vergangenheit holt ihn ein. Erneut mit der Kündigung konfrontiert, dreht Bill Moss durch. Die Spirale der Gewalt, der skrupellosen Durchsetzung seiner beruflichen Ziele, wird zum nicht mehr aufzuhaltenden Motor, der sich schneller und schneller bis hin zum dramatischen <em>Grande Finale</em> dreht.<p>  Der junge Autor Jason Starr, der selbst als Telefonverkaeufer in den USA arbeitet, hat mit seinem Debut bewiesen, daß er ein würdiger Nachfolger der Kriminalschriftsteller der schwarzen Serie ist. Weitere Romane aus seiner Hand duerften ein Garant für hochbrisante Spannung werden. <em>--Corinna S. Heyn</em></p></p></p>]]>
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