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• New edition to coincide with paperback release of Stark • Eddie Bunker still famous for his role as Mr Blue in • Bunker’s reputation still rising since his death in 2005 • Complete backlist new editions with new cover treatments MARKET:

Publication 22nd May 2008 Crime fiction, noir fiction. date: price: £7.99 DESCRIPTION: ISBN13: 978-1-84243-267-9 Ronald Decker guilty of a first offence, minor drug dealing charge is put away in

San Quentin where he is befriended by "old lag", Earl Copen. Copen is well in Binding: Paperback with flaps with the White Brotherhood just one of the many White, Black and Chicano Format: B (198 X 129mm) gangs in constant brutal conflict in San Quentin. Their growing friendship is extent: 208pp tested by Ron's rejection of a homosexual advance by another con which leads UK & Commonwealth Rights: to an act of ultimately fatal violence and in despair they seize a remote chance excl. Canada of escape. Market Not for sale in the USA Bunker writes of the sordid, horrifically violent and lawless prison life where life Restrictions: or Canada is cheap and death by shiv awaits anyone looking the wrong way with a great literary quality and at a merciless pace that never falters and with the realism BIC code: FF and knowledge gained from spending over 25 years in prison.

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Praise for Eddie Bunker:

‘The Animal Factory joins Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and George Jackson's Soledad Brother in the front rank of prison literature...a stone classic - ...’ - Time Out

‘Integrity, craftsmanship and moral passion...an artist with a unique and compelling voice...’ - William Styron For a review copy, or for further information, please contact: Chris Burrows PR AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: +44 (0)161 445 6635 email: [email protected] Edward Bunker, Mr Blue in Reservoir Dogs, was the author of No Beast So Publisher: No Exit Press Fierce, Little Boy Blue, Dog Eat Dog, The Animal Factory and his PO Box 394 autobiogragphy, Mr Blue, all published by No Exit. He was co-screenwriter of Harpenden the Oscar nominated movie, The Runaway Train, and appeared in over 30 Herts AL5 1XJ feature films, including with , the film of his Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1582 761264 book No Beast So Fierce. Edward Bunker died in 2005 and another novel, UK Distribution: Turnaround Stark, was discovered in his papers. 3 Olympia Trading Estate Coburg Rd London N22 6TZ Tel: +44 (0)208 829 3000 Fax: +44 (0)208 881 5088 www.turnaround-psl.com www.noexit.co.uk/titles/animalfactory.php new editions with new cover treatments released with Stark pb