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The first Crimewave Special is a novel called American
Graveyards by Ray Nayler, whose short story 'Cutting Wood,
Carrying Water' appeared in Crimewave 4: Mood Indigo.
Crimewave Specials are published in the same format as
Crimewave and, importantly, at the same price as Crimewave
(see below for
more details). Less ethical publishers would charge you a
fortune for such collectors' items. American Graveyards is
published on the 29th June 2001, but it is available by mail
order NOW. (Crimewave 5: Dark Before Dawn is mailed out to
subscribers next week.)
AMERICAN GRAVEYARDS by RAY NAYLER
The Mojave is a graveyard. It lies between Los Angeles and
Las Vegas, and through it runs a road where, in the middle of
desert nights, all of the human predators in those two cities
come to dump their prey. The desert is a
burying ground for nuclear waste, for garbage and slag from
the silver and gold mines, for abandoned cars and for
abandoned people. Outcasts huddle in shacks far out in the
night, away from prying eyes. In makeshift labs they mix
methamphetamine and speed. Everything discarded, everything
killed or broken or unwanted, it seems, ends up here.
Sometimes, people find things. A
hiker stumbles across a skull, a rusted six-shooter, a dead
cowboy who took shade under a Joshua tree a hundred years ago
and never stood up again. The police dig up a body and find
two more beneath it. Most of the time, though,
things stay buried . . .
Lance Bailey, PI, is on his last case and his last legs. The
murderer he has
been hunting all his adult life is just one step ahead of
him. But before he
can exact his final revenge, he must unravel a nasty web of
conspiracy and murder in the Mojave desert. Haunted by an
enigmatic nightmare and slowed down by age, Lance finds
himself struggling to keep up with a world that is growing
more and more fragmented and deadly with each passing
moment.
"Dark, dangerous and intoxicating, Ray Nayler's fiction is a
potent elixir that will slam your senses. It'll leave you
shaken and stirred, with cool characters on ice, and a plot
served up neat with a twist. Ready for a heady
shot and a slow burn?" Elise Lyons, Blue Murder
"Ray Nayler's crime fiction claws its way into your mind and
won't leave. He
writes like Jim Thompson on crack, only his prose is twenty
times better!" Anthony Neil Smith, Plots With Guns
240mm x 170mm, 136 pages, laminated colour cover (wraparound
photograph by Troy Paiva). Price: £6 UK, £7 Europe, £8 RoW,
US$12 USA, payable to TTA Press. Orders can be sent to our UK
address of 5 Martins Lane, Witcham, Ely,
Cambs CB6 2LB, or our US address of PO Box 219, Olyphant, PA
18447.
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