The Nicotine Chronicles

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Lee Child recruits Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, Cara Black, and others to reveal nicotine's scintillating alter egos. In recent years, nicotine has become as verboten as many hard drugs. The literary styles in this volume are as varied as the moral quandaries herein, and the authors have successfully unleashed their incandescent imaginations on the subject matter, fashioning an immensely addictive collection. Featuring brand-new stories by: Lee Child, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Ames, Eric Bogosian, Achy Obejas, Michael Imperioli, Hannah Tinti, Ariel Gore, Bernice L. McFadden, Cara Black, Christopher Sorrentino, David L. Ulin, Jerry Stahl, Lauren Sanders, Peter Kimani, and Robert Arellano. 'Sixteen tributes to America's guiltiest pleasure...Even confirmed anti-smokers will find something to savour.' - Kirkus Reviews 'The most successful entries delve bone-deep into addiction, as characters smoke to smother physical pain, loneliness, and their days...These writers capture the mental gymnastics behind the characters' bad decisions, and the joy such bad decisions can bring.' - Publishers Weekly

Lee Child was fired and out of work when he hatched a harebrained scheme to write a best-selling novel, thus saving his family from ruin. Killing Floor went on to launch the New York Times #1 best-selling Jack Reacher series with over 100 million books sold in forty-nine languages. Forbes calls it the strongest brand in publishing. The series has spawned two feature films and an upcoming Amazon Prime Video series.

Critical praise for Lee Child: Child is one writer who should never be taken for granted. --New York Times Child's writing is both propulsive and remarkably error-free, and he's expert at ratcheting up the tension. --Los Angeles Times A superb craftsman of suspense. --Entertainment Weekly Child is a deliberate stylist and his prose is taut, dynamic, and highly-sprung. --Spectator, Five Reasons Why the Jack Reacher Novels are Brilliant Wily plotting, swift pacing, mordant wit: Child is one skillful writer. --Kirkus Reviews