Pete Dexter

Deadwood, South Dakota, during the Black Hills gold rush of the 1870s, becomes the colorful backdrop for this novel populated by Wild Bill Hickok, his sidekick Charley Utter, Calamity Jane, and other famous Old West characters. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

A Novel

Deadwood

Two brothers become involved with a sexy young woman who asks them to investigate the case of the man she loves, a man whom she has never met but who has been convicted of killing the local sheriff.

The Paperboy

A crime novel about a white man accused of murdering a black girl in the United States.

Paris Trout

Spooner

Train

After his father's murder during a union power struggle, Peter moves in with his uncle and cousin Michael, and as the boys grow up, their paths diverge, until they are drawn into a deadly round robin of violence and revenge

Brotherly Love

With the hard-hitting style of newspaper writers Jimmy Breslin, Mike Royko, and George Higgins, Pete Dexter captures in striking detail a fictional blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood.

God's Pocket

Wild Bill Hickok, his best friend Charley Utter, and legendary, hell-raising prostitute Calamity Jane ride into the brawling boomtown of Deadwood to do some gambling. Little do they know that the vicious bounty hunter Boone May is waiting in town looking to make a name for himself. Wild, raw and dirty western excitement.

A new novel from the author of the National Book Award-winning Paris Trout. In the City of Brotherly Love, 8-year-old Peter Flood is left orphaned when his powerful father, a Philadelphia union boss with mob connections, dies in a car crash. Peter and his cousin Michael grow up in violent circumstances, and we look on in horror and fascination as both young men are sucked into a circle of betrayal and retribution.

Ein alternder Revolverheld, ein rachedurstiger Hurentreiber und ein skrupelloser Kopfgeldjäger: In Deadwood treffen drei Männer aufeinander, von denen keiner die Stadt unversehrt verlassen wird, denn hier herrscht das Gesetz des Stärkeren. 

Collects eighty-two definitive nonfiction writings by the author of the National Book Award-winning Paris Trout, in a volume that features works that chronicle the writer's life and times. 35,000 first printing.

True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage

Paper Trails

The sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found dead on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is swiftly arrested, tried and sentenced to death. Ward James - hotshot investigative reporter - returns to his rural hometown, intrigued by the proposition from a death row femme fatale who promises him the story of the decade. She's armed with explosive evidence, aiming to free her convicted 'fianc'. Together, they barrel down Florida's back roads and through its seamy underbelly in search of The Story, racing flat out into a head-on collision that will make headline news.

Lionel Walk, better known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course, where he comes to know a police detective he calls 'The Mile-Away Man'. Keeping his head down, he navigates his way between the careless brutality of the other caddies. Norah Still is unwillingly at the center of the criminal investigation, as the only survivor of an attempted boat hijacking gone violently wrong. Sergeant Miller Packard - Train's 'Mile-Away Man' - is in charge of the case and, as he quietly manages the crime scene, he finds himself drawn to the beautiful widow. Miller's interest in Norah and Train soon moves beyond his professional obligations. He tries to shield Norah from the events on the boat, fighting her need to hold on to the past. He becomes a kind of manager as Train competes as a golfer on a lucrative underground gambling circuit. Miller's oddly personal concern binds the three of them together in an uneasy triangle. Pete Dexter's remarkable new novel brings to life the most violent and tender impulses of his characters as they struggle to come to terms with the difference between a gift and a passion, between their abilities and their desires.

1965. En Floride, le shérif du comté de Moat, connu pour avoir abattu un nombre conséquent de Noirs, est retrouvé éventré. Le meurtrier, Hillary Van Wetter, attend son exécution dans le couloir de la mort. Une jeune femme, tombée amoureuse de lui après un échange de lettres, va tout faire pour prouver son innocence. Deux journalistes du Miami Times sont envoyés sur place. La publication de leur reportage va faire basculer la vie de tous les protagonistes...Glauque, torride, réaliste et violent, Paperboy pulvérise tous les clichés sur le journalisme d'investigation : un grand roman noir.

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Paperboy

Hillary Van Wetter foi preso pelo homicídio de um xerife sem escrúpulos e está, agora, aguardando no corredor da morte. Enquanto espera pela sentença final, Van Wetter recebe cartas da atraente Charlotte Bless, que está determinada a libertá-lo para que eles possam se casar. Bless tentará provar a inocência de Wetter conquistando o apoio de dois repórteres investigativos de um jornal de Miami: o ambicioso Yardley Acheman e o ingênuo e obsessivo Ward James. As provas contra Wetter são inconsistentes e os escritores estão confiantes de que, se conseguirem expor Wetter como vítima de uma justiça caipira e racista, sua história será aclamada no mundo jornalístico. No entanto, histórias mal contadas e fatos falsificados levarão Jack James, o irmão mais novo de Ward, a fazer uma investigação por conta própria. Uma investigação que dará conta de um mundo que se sustenta sobre mentiras e segredos torpes. Paperboy é um romance gótico sobre a vida aparentemente sossegada das cidades do interior. Um thriller tenso até a última linha, que fala de corrupção e violência, mas que, ao mesmo tempo, promove uma lição de ética. "Um romance estranho belo, que nos obriga a permanecer em suas misteriosas vielas emocionais." - The New York Times.

Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart, of Spooner's troubled childhood, troubled adolescence, violent and troubled adulthood and Calmer Ottosson's inexhaustible patience, undertaking a life-long struggle to salvage his step-son, a man he will never understand.

Accusé d'avoir éventré le shérif Call, Hillary Van Wetter attend la mort dans une prison de Floride. Eperdument éprise du condamné, Charlotte clame son innocence auprès du Miami Times qui dépêche deux journalistes sur place... Glamour, torride, réaliste et violent, Paperboy pulvérise les clichés du journalisme d'investigation.

En 1954, dans une petite ville de Géorgie, éclate un drame racial d'une extrême violence. Parce qu'il ne parvient pas à se faire rembourser, Paris Trout, un usurier, s'en prend à une famille noire qui lui doit de l'argent. Poursuivi par la Justice pour l'assassinat d'une adolescente, Paris Trout s'obstine à nier l'évidence : il n'a fait, selon lui, qu'user de son droit à la légitime défense.

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