The Devil's Brigade: A Novel of Suspense (A Nick

The Devil's Brigade: A Novel of Suspense (A Nick Lassiter-Skyler Thriller Book 1)

Denver Post Bestseller! Finalist, Beverly Hills Book Awards.
â€œA fresh concept and protagonistâ€¦an exciting actioner.â€ --Kirkus
THE GOOD NEWS: HIS BOOKâ€™S A BEST-SELLER. THE BAD: HEâ€™S BEEN BOOK-JACKED!
When he loses both job and girl friendâ€”oh, yesâ€”and also lands in jail in a few short hours, Nick Lassiterâ€™s thirtieth quickly shapes up as Worst Birthday Ever. But Lassiter still has one last hopeâ€”the thriller he hasn't yet sold. And then Worst Birthday graduates to Worst Day of His Life. Because he discovers not only has his manuscript been stolen, it was lifted by the Australian answer to James Patterson, and is now set to be the bestseller of the year, as the work of the worldâ€™s second best-selling author.

By anyoneâ€™s standards, Lassiterâ€™s got to do something. Sue, maybe; at the very least kick the thiefâ€™s audacious posterior. But, actually, all he really wants is an apology. As a high-level CIA official puts it: â€œHeâ€™s either the most principled person on the planetâ€”or the most naive.â€

Next thing you know heâ€™s barging into forbidden publishing circles with a brigade of intriguing and offbeat buddies, trying to get his mea culpa from the illustrious Cameron Barnaby Beckett IV, and Beckettâ€™s deliciously unctuous agent, Anton De Benedictis.

But unbeknownst to Lassiter and his slushpile brigade, his simple need to hear â€œIâ€™m sorryâ€ is seriously bollixing-up a long-planned CIA operation. Something else he doesn't know: the high-level spy whoâ€™s running it is none other than his estranged father, only one of many amusing connections that make this satirical thriller a complex and many-twisted page-turner.

Marquis is the kind of artful and wily author who seems at first to be taking you on a nice walk in the garden, when suddenly you notice youâ€™re actually on a towering cliff overlooking jagged rocks with a 16-wheeler barreling towards you. You never know what twist heâ€™s going to take, what daunting prospect lies ahead, but, since his story, bolstered by fine and compelling writing, barrels along at the speed of that 16-wheeler, youâ€™re not only happy to be along for the ride, you canâ€™t stop anyhow.

Among the many delights youâ€™ll encounterâ€”not only the requisite thrills and surprises (more than usual if we do say so!), but lavishly applied sly wit, including a laugh-out-loud skewering of publishing-as-we-know-it.

Readers of both humorous thrillers and their more butch cousins, hard-boiled thrillers, will eat this one up, especially fans of the late great comic spymaster Ross Thomas, and the ever subtle Thomas Perry. Those who love Timothy Hallinan, Don Winslow, and Harlan Coben will find themselves hooked as well; even aficionados of the more hard-boiled guys like Barry Eisler and Daniel Silva will find much to admire.And all will want to move on to:

SPECIAL READING BONUSâ€”THE BOOK WITHIN THE BOOK!

Fortunately, Author Marquis didn't stop with The Slushpile Brigade. He also wrote the pirated book within the bookâ€”the one those New York slickers stole from Nick Lassiter. Get Blind Thrust to see what all the fuss was about!
Country USA
Manufacturer Mount Sopris Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-09-15
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Mount Sopris Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-09-15
Format	Kindle eBook

The Devil's Brigade: A Novel of Suspense (A Nick Lassiter-Skyler Thriller Book 1)

THE GOOD NEWS: HIS BOOKâ€™S A BEST-SELLER. THE BAD: HEâ€™S BEEN BOOK-JACKED!

SPECIAL READING BONUSâ€”THE BOOK WITHIN THE BOOK!

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