MAITLAND Evan Maitland is co-owner and operator of Collette's Antiques, an upscale furniture store in Chicago. He's also a bail enforcement agent/bounty hunter. On a cold January night, a bail bondsman hires Maitland to find Barry McDermott, a lawyer charged with statutory rape. What appears to be a simple retrieval turns into something far more complicated. Maitland is shot in a gunfight and kills a man in self defense. After recovering from his injury, Maitland returns to Chicago and tries to put his life back together. But someone wants Maitland dead. With assassins on all sides, and only a determined Chicago policewoman to back him up, Maitland has to play this new game by his rules if he wants to stay alive. (Book 1 in the Maitland series) Rights Information Publisher: Five Star Trade, Paperback (March 2, 2006) Thorndike Press, Large print (June 13, 2005) Territory: All rights reserved Rights Available: Translation; Film/TV Reviews: "[K]nockout first novel...This is an extraordinary debut that harkens back to Elmore Leonard's classic City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit (1999). Great modern noir; don't miss it, and clamor for more." - Wes Lukowsky, Booklist (Starred review) "First-timer Hunt mixes his pitches expertly, mixing hard sliders (the incompetent and sometimes venal cops convinced that Maitland's working with the Jamaicans who are trying to kill him) with the occasional curveball (the improbable number of good-looking women who stand by their men until all of a sudden they don't). A world-weary but hopeful hero, a nice eye for the difference between professional and emotional involvement, and almost too much action for Maitland to handle. Hunt could be Elmore Leonard's less humorous son." - Kirkus Reviews Blurbs: Purchase at Amazon.com

MAITLAND

Evan Maitland is co-owner and operator of Collette's Antiques, an upscale furniture store in Chicago. He's also a bail enforcement agent/bounty hunter. On a cold January night, a bail bondsman hires Maitland to find Barry McDermott, a lawyer charged with statutory rape. What appears to be a simple retrieval turns into something far more complicated. Maitland is shot in a gunfight and kills a man in self defense. After recovering from his injury, Maitland returns to Chicago and tries to put his life back together. But someone wants Maitland dead. With assassins on all sides, and only a determined Chicago policewoman to back him up, Maitland has to play this new game by his rules if he wants to stay alive.

(Book 1 in the Maitland series)

Rights Information

Publisher: Five Star Trade, Paperback (March 2, 2006)
Thorndike Press, Large print (June 13, 2005)

Rights Available: Translation; Film/TV

Reviews:
"[K]nockout first novel...This is an extraordinary debut that harkens back to Elmore Leonard's classic City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit (1999). Great modern noir; don't miss it, and clamor for more." - Wes Lukowsky, Booklist (Starred review)

"First-timer Hunt mixes his pitches expertly, mixing hard sliders (the incompetent and sometimes venal cops convinced that Maitland's working with the Jamaicans who are trying to kill him) with the occasional curveball (the improbable number of good-looking women who stand by their men until all of a sudden they don't). A world-weary but hopeful hero, a nice eye for the difference between professional and emotional involvement, and almost too much action for Maitland to handle. Hunt could be Elmore Leonard's less humorous son." - Kirkus Reviews

Blurbs:

Purchase at Amazon.com