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Saw Red--SOLD OUT! Named a "Book of the Year"
2003 by Publisher's Weekly (starred review in PW 10/6)
Quarter-morocco state, 104 copies, signed and lettered by the author,
slipcased: $150
Brillianta cloth state, 1, 000 copies: $30. Signed copies available on
request.
Published mid-August, 2003; reprinted once in
1,000 cloth copies, October, 2003 (no statement in book of reprint)
 Bob
Truluck's first novel, Street Level, won both the 1999 St. Martin's
Press\Private Eye Writers of America prize for Best First Private Eye
Novel, and the 2000 Shamus Award for Best First Novel from the Private
Eye Writers of America, while introducing one slightly bad-ass, slightly
slack, and definitely way over-the-top Orlando PI, Duncan Sloan, to the
reading public and aficionados of the genre. I'm very happy to be able
to publish Truluck's second Sloan tale, Saw Red, which roars out
of the same Central Florida mire and milieu, wheels spitting out beautiful
high-class prostitutes, Dixie Mob hitmen, mullet- and muddle-headed homeboy
carjackers, really old Florida monied crackers, Italian gangsters
fresh from the Jersey Shore, Elmer Gantry-style multi-millionaire soul-picking
con-artists, all mixed with a stunningly scrumptious and exotic high-dollar
rent-a-cop who entwines herself with Sloan in his pursuit of an errant
black Jag and the Palm Pilot full of names it once had as a passenger.
Truluck writes like he's driving a 'jacked Dodge Viper—pedal to the
floor, and to hell with casualties. You don't often find a book both as
hard-boiled and finely hewn as Saw Red, shot through with some
of the finest black-humor to ever pixelate the relentless Florida sunshine.
Bob took this one back from St. Martin's when they wanted to "edit"
away his style, dumbing it down to be just like everybody else's, essentially;
and, as all of us know, Style (with a capital "S") is what makes
a PI novel, so I was very happy to step in and become the publisher of
his second novel, just as he wrote it and intended it to be published.
I don't think anybody will disagree with me after they read it!
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