NO EXIT PRESS AUGUST 2020 – JUNE 2021 NEW BOOKS AND BACKLIST NO EXIT PRESS 1 THE INNOCENTS MICHAEL CRUMMEY RICHLY IMAGINED AND COMPULSIVELY READABLE, THE INNOCENTS IS A RIVETING STORY OF HARDSHIP AND SURVIVAL, AND AN UNFLINCHING EXPLORATION OF THE BOND BETWEEN SIBLINGS. In centuries past, a brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated outport cove on Newfoundland’s northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean and a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but their family’s boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to help them survive. Muddling through the severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested. ‘A gripping and credible page-turner about children surviving in the wilderness, but more than that: this Adam and Eve struggle to make sense of a world that’s somewhere between Eden and Hell. Michael Crummey writes like an avenging angel, p h o never putting a word wrong’ t o : A n , author of Room d – EMMA DONOGHUE r e w M a c C o r ‘Imagine Into the Wild with prepubescents, m a c told in the voice of a William Blake acolyte as k verbally inventive as Tolkien… The Innocents is a survivor narrative and a psychological thriller, a chilling study in isolation’ – VULTURE MICHAEL CRUMMEY was born in Buchans, a mining town in the interior of Newfoundland, growing up there and in western Labrador. After thirteen years in AUGUST 2020 noexit.co.uk/theinnocents self-imposed exile in Ontario, he moved home to Newfoundland in 2000. He is the PB 978-0-85730-426-1 £8.99 // FORMAT B (198 x 129mm) PAGE EXTENT 288pp // EB 978-0-85730-427-8 £4.99 author of five books of poetry, a book of CATEGORY Literary Fiction // RIGHTS UK & Comm ex Canada short stories, and four other celebrated OTHER PUBLISHERS Doubleday – US & Canada, Argo – Czech novels, including the Giller prize-shortlised Republic, Eichborn – Germany, Presses de la Cité – France River Thieves. He lives in St. John’s. AUTHOR LOCATION Newfoundland, Canada noexit.co.uk/michaelcrummey 2 NO EXIT PRESS PLAY THE RED QUEEN JURIS JURJEVICS Vietnam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off- guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not officially in combat, sixteen thousand American servicemen are stationed in Vietnam “advising” the military and government. Among them are Ellsworth Miser and Clovis Robeson, two army investigators who have been tasked with tracking down the daring killer. Set in the besieged capital of a new nation on the eve of the coup that would bring down the Diem regime and launch the Americans into the Vietnam War, Play the Red Queen is a tour-de-force mystery-cum-social history, breathtakingly atmospheric and heartbreakingly alive with the laws and lawlessness of war. ‘Steamy and atmospheric... a great gift of a novel’ – DAN FESPERMAN, author of Safe Houses ‘In Play the Red Queen Jurjevics brings the heat, ‘Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly the smells and the corruption vividly to life on accomplished the seamless the cusp of the United States’ heavy involvement combining of a genre form with in Vietnam’s civil war. A social history, a political the deep resonance of literary art’ thriller, and a personal story, masterfully pulled together by a writer whose gifts we mourn’ – ROBERT OLEN BUTLER – SARA PARETSKY, author of Dead Land AUGUST 2020 noexit.co.uk/playtheredqueen PBO 978-0-85730-409-4 £8.99 // FORMAT B (198 x 129mm) PAGE EXTENT 352pp // EB 978-0-85730-410-0 £4.99 CATEGORY Spy Fiction/War Fiction JURIS JURJEVICS (1943- 2018) RIGHTS UK & Comm ex Canada was born in Latvia and grew up in displaced OTHER PUBLISHERS Soho Press – US & Canada persons camps in Germany before emigrating to the United States. He served in Vietnam for fourteen months, nine days, Also by JURIS JURJEVICS and two hours, his original tour delayed by the Tet Offensive. He wrote two other novels, Red Flags The Trudeau Vector THE TRUDEAU VECTOR and , which was PB 978-1-84243-204-4 £7.99 published in ten other countries. Publisher and co-founder of the Soho Press, Jurjevics RED FLAGS worked for decades in the book industry. PB 978-1-84243-766-7 £7.99 EB 978-1-84243-767-4 £1.99 noexit.co.uk/jurisjurjevics NO EXIT PRESS 3 CITY OF MARGINS WILLIAM BOYLE The lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. There’s Donnie Parascandolo, a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands; Ava Bifulco, a widow whose daily work grind is her whole life; Nick, Ava’s son, a grubby high school teacher who dreams of a shortcut to success; Mikey Baldini, a college dropout who’s returned to the old neighborhood, purposeless and drifting; Donna Rotante, Donnie’s ex-wife, still reeling from the suicide of their teenage son; Mikey’s mother, Rosemarie, also a widow, who hopes Mikey won’t fall into the trap of strong arm work; and Antonina Divino, a high school girl with designs on breaking free from Brooklyn. Uniting them are the dead: Mikey’s old man, killed over a gambling debt, and Donnie and Donna’s poor son, Gabe. These characters cross paths in unexpected ways, guided by coincidence and the pull of blood. This is a story of revenge and retribution, of untold desires, of yearning and forgiveness and synchronicity, of the great distance of lives lived in dangerous proximity to each other. ‘Boyle’s characters are vividly drawn and p h o t painfully real. Fans of literary crime novelists o : K a t i such as George Pelecanos and Richard Price will e F a r r e l be highly rewarded’ – PUBLISHERS WEEKLY l B o y l e SEPTEMBER 2020 noexit.co.uk/cityofmargins PBO 978-0-85730-405-6 £8.99 // FORMAT B (198 x 129mm) WILLIAM BOYLE is from Brooklyn, PAGE EXTENT 352pp // EB 978-0-85730-407-0 £4.99 New York. His debut novel, Gravesend, was CATEGORY Crime Fiction // RIGHTS UK & Comm ex Canada published as #1,000 in the Rivages/Noir OTHER PUBLISHERS Pegasus – US & Canada, Gallmeister – France, Polar Verlag – Germany collection in France, shortlisted for the Prix AUTHOR LOCATION Mississippi, USA Polar SNCF, nominated for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière and shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger. Boyle is also the author of the Hammett Also by WILLIAM BOYLE Prize-nominated The Lonely Witness (No Exit Press), a book of short series, Death GRAVESEND PBO 978-0-85730-128-4 £9.99 // EB 978-0-85730-129-1 £4.99 Don’t Have No Mercy and another novel, Tout est brisé, released in France by THE LONELY WITNESS PBO 978-0-85730-242-7 £8.99 // EB 978-0-85730-243-4 £4.99 Gallmeister. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi. A FRIEND IS A GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELF williammichaelboyle.com PBO 978-0-85730-130-7 £8.99 // EB 978-0-85730-131-4 £4.99 @wmboyle4 4 NO EXIT PRESS ANGEL’S INFERNO WILLIAM HJORTSBERG ‘WHEN THE DEVIL LAUGHS THE WHOLE DAMN WORLD LAUGHS WITH HIM’ A mind-bending thriller blending hard-boiled detective fiction, supernatural horror, and metaphysical noir, this is the stunning sequel to the Edgar-nominated novel Falling Angel, the basis for the classic cult film Angel Heart, which also stands alone as a masterwork of noir suspense fiction. Taking readers on a macabre journey into the occult, from mid-fifties New York to Paris to the Vatican, private investigator Harry Angel, seeking both answers about his true identity and revenge, hunts down Satan himself. PRAISE FOR WILLIAM HJORTSBERG ‘Angel’s Inferno is long-awaited and darker than hell. The devil owns all shades of noir in a sequel we never thought would happen’ – MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI ‘Falling Angel is a terrific book... I’ve never read anything remotely like it. Trying to imagine what might have happened if Raymond Chandler had written the Exorcist is as close as I can come’ – STEPHEN KING WILLIAM HJORTSBERG (1941– 2017) was an acclaimed author of novels and screenplays. Born in New York City, Hjortsberg’s first success came with Alp (1969), an offbeat story of an Alpine skiing village, which Hjortsberg’s friend Thomas McGuane called ‘quite possibly the finest comic novel written in America’. In the 1970s, Hjortsberg wrote two science fiction novels, Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography (1973), as well as Toro! Toro! Toro! (1974), a comic jab at the macho world of bullfighting. His best-known work is OCTOBER 2020 noexit.co.uk/angels-inferno Falling Angel (1978), a hard-boiled occult PB 978-0-85730-413-1 £8.99 // FORMAT B (198 x 129mm) mystery. In 1987 the book was adapted into PAGE EXTENT 384pp // EB 978-0-85730-414-8 £4.99 the film Angel Heart, which starred Robert CATEGORY Crime Thriller/Horror RIGHTS UK & Comm ex Canada De Niro and Mickey Rourke. Hjortsberg’s OTHER PUBLISHERS Centipede Press – US & Canada work also includes Jubilee Hitchhiker (2012), a biography of Richard Brautigan. NO EXIT PRESS 5 TURNCOAT ANTHONY J QUINN The sole survivor of a murderous ambush, a Belfast police detective is forced into a desperate search for a mysterious informer that takes him to a holy island on Lough Derg, a place shrouded in strange mists and hazy rain, where nothing is as it first appears to be.