Imprint: No Exit Press

Stark

Edward Bunker

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Oceanview, Los Angeles, 1962.

Stark is a rat and a con-artist. Nobody’s friend. The kind of guy Eddie Bunker met in San Quentin. Stark thinks he can beat the suckers and outsmart the cops. When a big score comes his way, he’s lucky to escape with his life. Four others are not so lucky.

Eddie Bunker described Stark as a story about a con man. Eddie didn’t think much of con-men, because, as a rule, they preyed upon people weaker than themselves. But he understood them.

Stark was Eddie Bunker’s first novel, written in the early 60s and a harbinger of the books that brought him critical acclaim such as No Beast So Fierce. Never published during his life time, the manuscript was only rediscovered after his death and is published in English for the first time by No Exit.

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Hardback

RRP: £18.99

ISBN: 9781842432068

Published: June 21, 2007

Extent: 224 pages

Paperback

RRP: £16.99

ISBN: 9781842432648

Published: May 21, 2008

Extent: 224 pages

Ebook

RRP: £4.99

ISBN: 9781842437612

Published: August 29, 2012

Reviews

‘At 40 Eddie Bunker was a hardened criminal with a substantial prison record. Twenty-five years later, he was hailed by his peers as America’s greatest living crimewriter’

The Independent

‘Edward Bunker is a true original of American letters. His books are criminal classics: novels about criminals, written by an ex-criminal, from the unregenerately criminal viewpoint’

James Ellroy, New York Times bestselling author

‘a startling freshness that should return Bunker to literary life’

Sarah Weinman , Los Angeles Times

‘If ever there was a natural writer, the late, great Bunker was one. Read [Stark], and mourn his loss’

Mark Timlin , The Independent

‘a fine place to start appreciating the art of Edward Bunker’

Timothy J. Lockhart , The Virginian-Pilot

Edward Bunker

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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