First
Publication in 60 Years, First Ever Under Author’s Real Name
Hard
Case Crime, the award-winning line of vintage-style crime fiction from editor
Charles Ardai and publisher Titan Books, has discovered a lost pulp crime novel
by Gore Vidal, one that has been unavailable for more than 60 years and has
never been published under the author’s real name. THIEVES FALL OUT, the story
of an American trying to smuggle an ancient treasure out of Egypt on the eve of
a bloody revolution, will be published in hardcover on April 7, 2015.
In
1953, when he was 28 years old and already enjoying the combination of literary
esteem and scandal that would mark his career as one of the major authors and
intellectual figures of the 20th century, Gore Vidal wrote a pulp crime
novel under the name “Cameron Kay” (the name of his great-uncle, a Texas
attorney general). THIEVES FALL OUT has never been reprinted.
“This
novel provides a delicious glimpse into the mind of Gore Vidal in his formative
years,” said Charles Ardai. “By turns mischievous and deadly serious, Vidal
tells the story of a man caught up in events bigger than he is, a
down-on-his-luck American in Cairo at a time when revolution is brewing and
heads are about to roll. THIEVES FALL OUT also offers a startling glimpse of
Egypt in turmoil – despite having been written over half a century ago, it
feels as current as the news streaming from that region today.”
Gore
Vidal was one of America’s greatest and most controversial writers. The
author of twenty-three novels, five plays, three memoirs, numerous screenplays
and short stories, and well over two hundred essays, he received the National
Book Award in 1993.
THIEVES
FALL OUT will feature a new cover painting by Glen Orbik, one of Hard Case
Crime’s most acclaimed painters. Orbik’s previous covers for Hard Case Crime
include JOYLAND by Stephen King and BINARY by Michael Crichton (writing as John
Lange).
ISBN:
9781781167922 | 10 April 2015 | Hardback | 240pp | £16.99
THIEVES
FALL OUT
Gore
Vidal
A guardian article on Thieves Fall Out can be read here.
About
Hard Case Crime
Called
“the best new American publisher to appear in the last decade” by Neal Pollack
in The Stranger, Hard Case Crime has been nominated for and/or won
numerous honours since its inception including the Edgar, the Shamus, the
Anthony, the Barry, and the Spinetingler Award. The series’ books have
been adapted for television and film, with two features currently in
development at Universal Pictures, a TV pilot based on Max Allan
Collins’ Quarry novels in development by Cinemax, and the TV
series Haven going into its fifth season on SyFy. Recent Hard
Case Crime titles include Stephen King’s #1 New York
Times bestseller, Joyland; James M. Cain’s lost final novel, The
Cocktail Waitress; a series of eight lost novels written by Michael Crichton
under the pseudonym “John Lange”; and Brainquake, the final novel of
writer/filmmaker Samuel Fuller. Hard Case Crime is published through a
collaboration between Winterfall LLC and Titan Publishing Group.www.hardcasecrime.com
About
Titan Publishing Group
Titan
Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company, established in
1981, comprising three divisions: Titan Books, Titan Magazines/Comics and Titan
Merchandise. Titan Books, nominated as Independent Publisher of the Year
2011, has a rapidly growing fiction list encompassing original fiction and
reissues, primarily in the areas of science fiction, fantasy, horror, steampunk
and crime. Recent crime and thriller acquisitions include Mickey Spillane and
Max Allan Collins’ all-new Mike Hammer novels, the Matt Helm series by Donald
Hamilton, and the entire backlist of the Queen of Spy Writers, Helen
MacInnes. Titan Books also has an extensive line of media- and pop
culture-related non-fiction, graphic novels, and art and music books. The
company is based at offices in London, but operates worldwide, with sales and
distribution in the U.S. and Canada being handled by Random House. www.titanbooks.com
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