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Overview

From Simon & Schuster, Drawing Dead is Pete Hautman's novel about an ex-cop and his latest, chaotic case.

In a fast-paced comic thriller set in Minneapolis, ex-cop Jim Crow finds himself in over his head in a scheme replete with poker-playing hustlers, cocaine, and two con artists selling shares of a rare comic book collection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476748528
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	04/06/2013
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Pete Hautman is the author of National Book Award–winning novel Godless, Sweetblood, Hole in the Sky, Stone Cold, The Flinkwater Factor, The Forgetting Machine, and Mr. Was, which was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America, as well as several adult novels. He lives in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Visit him at PeteHautman.com.

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Lawrence Block

Pete Hautman has written a remarkably entertaining and accomplished first novel, and the comparisons to Westlake and Leonard are justified. We'll have a good time with this one.

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Editorial Reviews

A prolific children's nonfiction author (under the pseudonym Peter Murray) turns to adult fiction in this first-class caper novel, which involves a truly unique scam and enough memorably shady characters to fill several volumes by Elmore Leonard. Tom and Ben are fast-traveling con artists who prey on novice collectors in the comic book collectibles market. When they make the mistake of selling a bogus Batman #3 to smalltime Chicago hood Joey Cadillac, they're forced to flee to Minneapolis, where they set up another scam in cahoots with questionable investment counselor Dickie Wick and his oversexed wife Catfish. Former cop and ex-cokehead Joe Crow, in debt to Wick after a bad round of poker, gets caught up in their shenanigans, much to his regret. When his gal pal, the very punk Laura Debrowski, is beaten up while trying to help him, Crow gets mad and decides to con the con men. How it all turns out makes a wonderful story, tartly told. Hautman's knowledge of the comics field and its collectors' manias gives verisimilitude to the goings-on; his two legitimate dealers, Fatman and Natch, will prompt a smile of recognition from anyone who's ever visited a comics shop. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Ex-cop and ex-druggie Joe Crow is forced into using his investigative skills to pay off a gambling debt owed to a stockbroker of dubious reputation. Teaming up with his neighbor Laura Debrowski, Crow takes on the underworld of Minneapolis card hustlers and the lucrative genre of comic-book trading. Along the way, we are introduced to a variety of strange and interesting characters, relationships, and high-finance scams. In both characterization and plot intricacies, this novel strongly resembles the high comedic novels of Donald Westlake. Written in a breezy style, with broad strokes of understated humor, it becomes a fast-paced suspense thriller with a satisfying ending. One hopes that this novel is the start of a series of equally outrageous adventures played out against the background of Minneapolis and vicinity. Recommended for general fiction and browsing collections.-- Erna Chamberlain, SUNY-Binghamton

Library Journal

What happens when con artists try to con one another? In Hautman's high-philosophy fiction debut, all hell breaks loose....Hautman has us reading as fast as we can, intent on the fate of his meddlesome, conniving, and hilarious characters. -- Booklist

Donna Seaman

In this very accomplished first novel, Mr. Hautman keeps the plot moving at an exhilerating pace. The people are unexpected, the dialogue is terrific and the descriptions are laugh-out-loud funny. Bawdy, gritty, and unpredictable, Drawing Dead is a sparkling debut. -- The Wall Street Journal

Tom Nolan

...a romp of a first novel....The cast of characters alone is worth the price of admission.

LA Times