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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From No Exit Press JULY-SEPT 1998

Lawrence Block Me Tanner, You Jane Pbk published September 1998 by No Exit Press at £4.99 ISBN: 190198221 1 Artwork by: Cover photo: the Image Bank. Cover design: Alan Foster
He is 34 years old and hasn't slept a wink since a piece of shrapnel destroyed the sleep centre in his brain during the Korean War. Evan Tanner loves lost causes and beautiful women. The FBI has a thick file on him; the CIA taps his phone and a super-secret intelligence agency wants him to be their man!
Superspy, Evan Tanner's new assignment is to bring back alive the missing ruler of a new African nation...and the state treasury that's missing with him. But waiting in the heart of Africa is Sheena, a missionary's renegade daughter with an appetite for men and power...a taste that puts Tanner in the lovely arms of this deadly lady and lands him in hot water - the kind that can turn a spy into a cooked goose!

"Wonderfully detailed and inspiring writing" - The Guardian
"Block is one of the best" - Washington Post
"..if you are coming new to Lawrence Block.....it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship" - Vincent Banville - Irish Times
"A master of crime fiction" - Jonathan Kellerman

Lawrence Block is a regular visitor to Britain and Ireland and completed the first new Evan Tanner novel in 27 years - Tanner on Ice - while he was in Ireland this summer. The Author is a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. Other "Masters" include Elmore Leonard & Tony Hillerman. Three time Edgar award winner. Block is huge in the U.S. with 500,000 copy paperback & 60,000 copy hardcover initial print runs and Main selections of the Mystery Guild of his new books. Block has a genuine mass appeal to all ages of both men and women. He is crime fictions answer to Terry Pratchett & Tom Sharpe

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D W Buffa The Defence Published July 1998 by No Exit Press at £10.00 ISBN: 1 901982 23 8 Artwork by: Jacket design: Alan Foster. Jacket photo: Images Colour Library
I never lost a case I should have won, and I won nearly all the cases I should have lost ...
Defense attorney Joseph Antonelli is a stranger to defeat. There doesn't seem to be a case, no matter how implausible, that is beyond him. Until the phone rings one crisp April morning and Judge Leopold Rifldn asks Antonelli to defend Johnny Morel, a con man and a convicted drug dealer accused of raping his 12 year old stepdaughter, Michelle. The prosecution's case is riddled with inconsistencies and Michelle's history of sexual abuse could be the perfect straw man for the defense. With the testimony of Morel's femme fatale wife, Denise, there just might be a way out of the conviction.
Antonelli has never confused the legal system with justice, so it should have been routine to defend a man he knew was guilty. And it should have ended there. No one suspected it would all end in murder.
The Defense is a psychological study in suspense. In a world where morality has been reduced to a hefty legal fee and truth to a commodity, The Defense is a tour de force about the strengths of passion, the elusiveness of truth and the lethal repercussions of injustice.

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