<div>A new anthology of cocaine stories from the creators of The Speed Chronicles&mdash;&ldquo;Caution: these stories are addicting&rdquo; (Harlan Coben). This ambitious anthology of jaw-grinding criminal behavior is masterfully curated by acclaimed authors Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon. Cocaine is the subject, the whys and whereofs in The Cocaine Chronicles, a collection of original short stories that are funny and harrowing, sad and scary, but at all times riveting. The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today&rsquo;s most thought-provoking writers. Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones. </div>

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The Cocaine Chronicles

<div>A fed&rsquo;s debt to a sexy snitch leads to a darkly funny nightmare of double-crosses and sinister motives: &ldquo;Ward is simply the best&rdquo; (Michael Connelly). All FBI Agent Jack Harper wants is a heavenly vacation in Baja: sand, surf, and fishing. Then he gets a phone call from hell: it&rsquo;s his for-lack-of-a-better-word girlfriend, Michelle Wu. The hot con-artist, and irresistible chop-shop queen needs Jack&rsquo;s help in finding her kidnapped sister, a nurse working a posh Taos health spa for seniors. Michelle&rsquo;s got an idea who&rsquo;d gain from it: a biker she wronged who&rsquo;s got a rotten sweet tooth for revenge. But Jack must be nuts to think the case would end with a homicidal gang called Sons of Satan. It&rsquo;s just beginning, and where it leads Jack, his partner Oscar Hidalgo, and Michelle is down a dark road with so many sharp turns and twists it could snap a neck. So buckle up for The Best Bad Dream by the PEN West prize-winning &ldquo;heir to the pulp fiction tradition&rdquo; (BookReporter.com). And we dare you: &ldquo;Name another novel that starts out with New Age satire and winds up with a bizarro oldster version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ward&rsquo;s no-holds-barred style and fevered imagination will . . . hit the spot for a special kind of bent reader&rdquo; (Booklist).</div>

The Best Bad Dream

<div>This original anthology of noir fiction set in Maryland&rsquo;s Charm City includes new stories by David Simon, Laura Lippman, Jim Fusilli, and more.As fans of the HBO series The Wire have known for years, Baltimore is home to a rich and diverse underworld that is matched by an equally rich and diverse literary tradition. This is the city where Dashiell Hammett worked as a Pinkerton agent. It&rsquo;s also where Zelda Fitzgerald came for psychiatric treatment. In this sterling collection of noir fiction, some of Baltimore&rsquo;s best authors &ldquo;confront the full irony that is Charm City, a place where you can go from the leafy beauty of the North Side neighborhoods to the gutted ghettos of the West Side in less than twenty minutes, then find your way to the revamped Inner Harbor in another ten&rdquo; (Laura Lippman, from the introduction).Baltimore Noir includes brand-new stories by David Simon, Laura Lippman, Tim Cockey, Rob Hiaasen, Robert Ward, Sujata Massey, Jack Bludis, Rafael Alvarez, Marcia Talley, Joseph Wallace, Lisa Respers France, Charlie Stella, Sarah Weinman, Dan Fesperman, Jim Fusilli, and Ben Neihart.</div>

Baltimore Noir

<div>L.A. FBI agents are up against an unstoppable cop killer in this thriller by the PEN West Award–winning author Four Kinds of Rain. Jack Harper and Oscar Hidalgo are two of the smartest, toughest FBI agents in Los Angeles. But they’ve met their match in diamond smuggler Karl Steinbach. Arrested during a sting operation, Steinbach tells the team of agents he will kill them all. Coming from a man who’s about to go to prison, it sounds like an empty threat. Then, one by one, they start to die. Knowing they could be next, Harper and Hidalgo are out to stop a man they already have behind bars. It’s an impossible situation that only gets worse when Steinbach makes a deal with Homeland Security and is freed with total immunity. But as their investigation reveals shocking secrets within the bureau, Harper and Hidalgo realize that Steinbach is the least of their worries.</div>

Total Immunity

<div>When Red Baker, a Larmel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland, gets laid off from his job he goes crazy: boozing, attempted philandering, running away from his future. Filled with unforgettable characters from Red&rsquo;s angry but loyal wife, Wanda; his basketball-star son, Ace; his lifelong friend Dog, a casualty of the layoff; and Crystal, the go-go dancer at Lily&rsquo;s bar who embodies Red&rsquo;s fantasies of escape. Red Baker is a classic American novel about a man with no identity who tries to replace the one he&rsquo;s lost.</div>

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Books By Robert Ward (3 Books)

The Best Bad Dream

Total Immunity

Red Baker

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