THE COLD SPOT Chase was raised as a getaway driver by his grandfather, Jonah, a con man feared by even the hardened career criminals who make up his crew. But when Jonah crosses the line and murders one of his own, Chase goes solo, stealing cars and pulling scores across the country….And then he meets Lila, a strong-willed deputy sheriff with a beguiling smile who shows him what love can be. Chase is on the straight and narrow for the first time in his life—until tragedy hits, and he must reenter the dark world of grifters and crooks. Now Chase is out for revenge—and he’ll have to turn to the one man he hates most in the world. Only Jonah can teach Chase how to become a stone-cold killer. But even as the two men work together, Chase knows that their unresolved past will eventually lead them to a showdown of their own. * One of Amazon.com's Top 10 Mystery & Thrillers of 2008 * * Nominated for a 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original * Rights Information Publisher: Bantam, Paperback (April 29, 2008) Territory: World Rights Available: Film/TV Reviews: "Piccirilli tells the gritty, violent and dark tale in an appealingly noirish narrative style, highly economical yet bracingly intimate." – Publishers Weekly "THE COLD SPOT by Tom Piccirilli is brilliant magic from beginning to end." - Carolyn Lanier "for those people who like their horrors human and psychological, [THE COLD SPOT is] an amazing novel…[Piccirilli’s] pitch-dark sensibilities are in rare form." – Fangoria (Book of the month) "[Tom Piccirilli's] prose has the visceral punch of the best pulp writers of the past century. His move into crime fiction is welcome: The Cold Spot is both funny and ferocious...Piccirilli bangs it out like an old-school penny-a-worder, but his stories are worth their weight in gold. Also out now is the more somber but equally good The Fever Kill" - Eddie Muller, San Francisco Chronicle Blurbs: "A powerful, hard-hitting, fiercely original writer of suspense. I highly recommend him." – David Morrell, author of Creepers "Tom Piccirilli's fiction is visceral and unflinching, yet deeply insightful." – F. Paul Wilson, author of The Keep and Bloodline "The Cold Spot is truly dazzling. Piccirilli has taken the mystery to a whole other level." – Ken Bruen, award-winning author of The Guards "Blackest noir, the most minimal kind of minimalism, and at the same time deeply emotional: this is not easy to do. I loved The Cold Spot." – Peter Abrahams, bestselling author of Nerve Damage "Lean, brutal and completely arresting, Tom Piccirilli's The Cold Spot is a bull's-eye hardboiled tale." – Megan Abbott, author of The Song is You "The Cold Spot is crime fiction at its very best, an exceptional revenge story so vivid you feel like you're in the back seat of a getaway car with a master storyteller at the wheel." – Jason Starr, author of The Follower Purchase at Amazon.com

THE COLD SPOT

Chase was raised as a getaway driver by his grandfather, Jonah, a con man feared by even the hardened career criminals who make up his crew. But when Jonah crosses the line and murders one of his own, Chase goes solo, stealing cars and pulling scores across the country….And then he meets Lila, a strong-willed deputy sheriff with a beguiling smile who shows him what love can be.

Chase is on the straight and narrow for the first time in his life—until tragedy hits, and he must reenter the dark world of grifters and crooks. Now Chase is out for revenge—and he’ll have to turn to the one man he hates most in the world. Only Jonah can teach Chase how to become a stone-cold killer. But even as the two men work together, Chase knows that their unresolved past will eventually lead them to a showdown of their own.

* One of Amazon.com's Top 10 Mystery & Thrillers of 2008 *
* Nominated for a 2009 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original *

Rights Information

Publisher: Bantam, Paperback (April 29, 2008)

Territory: World

Rights Available: Film/TV

Reviews:
"Piccirilli tells the gritty, violent and dark tale in an appealingly noirish narrative style, highly economical yet bracingly intimate." – Publishers Weekly

"THE COLD SPOT by Tom Piccirilli is brilliant magic from beginning to end." - Carolyn Lanier

"for those people who like their horrors human and psychological, [THE COLD SPOT is] an amazing novel…[Piccirilli’s] pitch-dark sensibilities are in rare form." – Fangoria (Book of the month)

"[Tom Piccirilli's] prose has the visceral punch of the best pulp writers of the past century. His move into crime fiction is welcome: The Cold Spot is both funny and ferocious...Piccirilli bangs it out like an old-school penny-a-worder, but his stories are worth their weight in gold. Also out now is the more somber but equally good The Fever Kill" - Eddie Muller, San Francisco Chronicle

Blurbs:
"A powerful, hard-hitting, fiercely original writer of suspense. I highly recommend him." – David Morrell, author of Creepers

"Tom Piccirilli's fiction is visceral and unflinching, yet deeply insightful." – F. Paul Wilson, author of The Keep and Bloodline

"The Cold Spot is truly dazzling. Piccirilli has taken the mystery to a whole other level." – Ken Bruen, award-winning author of The Guards

"Blackest noir, the most minimal kind of minimalism, and at the same time deeply emotional: this is not easy to do. I loved The Cold Spot." – Peter Abrahams, bestselling author of Nerve Damage

"Lean, brutal and completely arresting, Tom Piccirilli's The Cold Spot is a bull's-eye hardboiled tale." – Megan Abbott, author of The Song is You

"The Cold Spot is crime fiction at its very best, an exceptional revenge story so vivid you feel like you're in the back seat of a getaway car with a master storyteller at the wheel." – Jason Starr, author of The Follower

Purchase at Amazon.com