Tough Luck

WINNER: Barry Award for Best Paperback Original

FINALIST: Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original

Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to help his sick dad. But Mickey's got a problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey to place bets for him and Angelo keeps losing. As Angelo gets further in the hole, his bad luck is turning out to be Mickey's too.

Now Mickey's got his bookie after him and Angelo's showing him the butt of his pistol rather than paying him back. So when his best friend, Chris, asks Mickey to join him on a can't-lose caper, Mickey decides to go along. But, surefire schemes often have a way of backfiring, and this one is sending Mickey into an uncharted part of Brooklyn, where fish like Chris and Mickey have trouble just staying alive.

About the Author

Jason Starr is the international bestselling author of many crime novels and thrillers, including Savage Lane (on sale 10/13/15 from Polis Books). Starr's other novels are Cold Caller, Nothing Personal, Fake I.D., Hard Feelings, Tough Luck, Twisted City, Lights Out, The Follower, Panic Attack, The Pack, The Craving. He has won the Anthony Award twice, as well as the Barry Award, and his books are published in more than a dozen languages. He has also co-written four novels with Ken Bruen--Bust, Slide, The Max and Pimp (on sale 3/15/16 from Hard Case Crime)--and co-edited Bloodlines, an anthology of horse racing stories for Vintage Books. He has written comics and graphic novels for Vertigo (THE CHILL), DC (Batman, Doc Savage, Sand, The Avenger, and Marvel (The Punisher, Wolverine Max, and the original novel Ant-Man Natural Enemy). He lives in Manhattan.