Fake I.D.

Description

At 32 years old, Tommy Russo's dream of becoming a famous actor is fading fast, and he is splitting his time between gambling during the day and working nights as a bouncer at a Manhattan bar. When an opportunity comes along to join a smalltime horse-owning syndicate, Tommy jumps at the chance. Suddenly, he has a new dream - he could be a famous horse owner, in the winner's circle at Hollywood Park. The only problem is that he needs ten thousand dollars to join the syndicate. What begins with white lies and petty crime, quickly esculates to robbery and murder.

Jason Starr is the author of Cold Caller, Nothing Personal, Fake I.D., Hard Feelings and Tough Luck followed by Lights Out, The Follower, Panic Attack, Savage Lane and his latest novel, Too Far. He was born in Brooklyn in 1966 and still lives in New York City. Sharm Murugiah is an award-winning British Illustrator & Graphic Designer, living in London and currently working at Scribbler Cards, UK. Sharm also works as a freelance Illustration Artist & Graphic Designer and has contributed a series of striking covers for No Exit Press' Jason Starr titles.

Bang up-to-date, but reminiscent of David Goodis and Jim Thompson, Fake 'I.D.' is a powerful novel of the American Dream turning into the American Nightmare that marks Starr out as a writer to follow * Time Out * Starr expertly combines elements of hard-boiled crime novels with a dark view of human nature to create a one-of-a-kind, mesmerizing read * Publishers Weekly * A fine example of of the tough stuff... I loved it -- Ken Tucker * Entertainment Weekly * Fake I.D. is a welcome oddity. A chilling account of the disintegration of a loser, it assumes the voice of a killer with an icy conviction * The Herald, Glasgow * Starr's best book yet. Echoing the neo-noir feel of Cold Caller and Nothing Personal... up there with the best of Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford and David Goodis * Waterstones Online *