5 IMPORTANT LESSONS YOU CAN LEARN BY READING BUST: 1. When you hire someone to kill your wife, don’t hire a psychopath. 2. Drano is not the best tool for getting rid of a dead body. 3. Those locks on hotel room doors? Not very secure. 4. A curly blond wig isn’t much of a disguise. 5. Secrets can kill.

In a hilarious sequel to Bust, fugitive Angela Petrakos hooks up with a serial killer in Ireland, while failed New York businessman Max Fisher finds a new calling as a crack dealer. But will their paths cross again? Original.

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS OF BUST AND SLIDE \ \ When last we saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law —Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos... \ \ First publication ever! \ \ Booklist on THE MAX: "A pleasure of the guiltiest kind, like No Country for Old Men as directed by Mel Brooks." \ \ Two of the hottest authors in crime fiction today, Bruen and Starr have been nominated for or won almost every award in the field: the Edgar, the Shamus, the Barry, the Anthony, the Macavity, and more \ \ BUST and SLIDE both received rave reviews from Entertainment Weekly and other major publications \ \ Acclaim for the work of Bruen and Starr... \ \ "Two of the century s best thriller writers have joined forces to bring a postmodern twist to the black heart of noir fiction." \ \ —The Rocky Mountain News \ \ "You want to read a good, mean book? Grab this new paperback thriller." \ \ —Entertainment Weekly \ \ "Vulgar, demented, violent, twisted, amoral, and hilarious... some of the funniest dialogue this side of Elmore Leonard." \ \ —Otto Penzler, The New York Sun

Reteaming a decade after their award-nominated first collaboration, Bruen and Starr complete the saga of wannabe druglord Max Fisher and his one-time assistant Angela, now working in the capital of sin and depravity: Hollywood.