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Imprint: No Exit Press
Category: Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Death Row Breakout Stories brings together seven previously unseen short stories that draw fully on Edward Bunker’s incomparable experience of the U.S. prison system.
The title story Death Row Breakout details the routine of being on Death Row, before exploding into action when the plans for a breakout kick in. In L.A. Justice, a black man falls foul of the law after a minor traffic incident and once inside the prison system he finds it a labyrinth impossible to escape from… As James Ellroy says `by an ex-criminal, from the unregenerately criminal viewpoint…’
RRP: £16.99
ISBN: 9781842432952
Published: February 25, 2010
Extent: 192 pages
RRP: £4.99
ISBN: 9781842437643
Published: August 30, 2012
‘I don’t know if any politicians read Bunker. But they should’
Cathi Unsworth , The Guardian
‘Brilliant… truly thrilling reading’
Dazed and Confused
Edward Bunker, Mr Blue in Reservoir Dogs, was the author of No Beast So Fierce, Little Boy Blue, Dog Eat Dog, The Animal Factory and his autobiography, Mr Blue, all published by No Exit. He was co-screenwriter of the Oscar nominated movie, The Runaway Train, and appeared in over 30 feature films, including Straight Time with Dustin Hoffman, the film of his book No Beast So Fierce. Edward Bunker died in 2005 and another novel, Stark, was discovered in his papers.
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