DRIVEN JAMES SALLIS NEW TITLE MARKETING:  Critically acclaimed film of Drive, starring , by Cannes award winning director, , has brought James Sallis to a much wider and larger audience  Major retrospective relaunch of 12 backlist titles with stunning new themed covers  Drive was a Top 100 Kindle bestseller in UK, Top 50 in France  DVD of Drive released Jan 30th 2012

Pub. date: 24th May 2012 DESCRIPTION: Price: £7.99 The stunning new novel from the author of Drive ISBN13: 978-1-84243-837-4 Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double- Binding: Paperback Original crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful Format: B (198 x 219mm) business back in Phoenix.

Extent: 160pp But walking down the street one day, he and his fiancee are attacked by two men and, UK and Commonwealth while Driver dispatches both, his fiancee is killed. Rights: excl. Canada Sinking back into anonymity, aided by his friend Felix, an ex-gangbanger and Desert Market UK and Commonwealth Storm vet, Driver realises that his past stalks him - and will not stop. Restrictions: excl. Canada only He has to turn and face it. Market: Fiction

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Rpt. Code: NP 'Driven is a lean and nasty piece of neo-noir. I took my seat on page one and didn't get back up again until it ended (far too quickly.) Always a pleasure to be in the hands of a master like James Sallis.' - Dennis Lehane ‘A lean and lethal noir narrative’ – The New York Times 'Terse, brutal, poetic, perfectly wrought sequel. Come into this excellent novel cold, strap

in, just hit the gas, and go.' - Publishers Weekly starred review 'If James Sallis’ totemic Driver seemed somehow superhuman in the original Drive, then For a review copy, or for further information, in its sequel, things have evolved even further'- Declan Tan, 3ammagazine please contact: Chris Burrows PR +44 (0)161 445 6635 ‘An unsung genius of crime writing’ – The Independent On Sunday [email protected] 'James Sallis is a superb writer' - The Times Publisher: No Exit Press PO Box 394 BIOGRAPHY: Harpenden Herts AL5 1XJ Jim Sallis has published fourteen novels, multiple collections of short Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1582 761264 stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester

UK Distribution: Turnaround Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He 3 Olympia Trading Estate has written about books for the L.A. Times, New York Times, and Coburg Rd London N22 6TZ Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 Boston Globe. In 2007 he received a lifetime achievement award from Fax: +44 (0)208 881 5088 Bouchercon. In addition to Drive, the six Lew Griffin books are now in www.turnaround-uk.com development as feature films. Jim teaches novel writing at Phoenix College www.noexit.co.uk/driven and plays regularly with his string band, Three-Legged Dog. He stays busy.