Scott Lang, also known as Ant-Man, is just getting settled in to his new home when his daughter is targeted by a villain and he must go back to crime-fighting to save her.
Reteaming a decade after their award-nominated first collaboration, Bruen and Starr complete the saga of wannabe druglord Max Fisher and his one-time assistant Angela, now working in the capital of sin and depravity: Hollywood.
"I want to kill these guys-except I can't stop laughing long enough."-Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Max and Angela are going down.
When we last saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking, and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law-Max in the cell blocks of Attica, Angela in a quaint little prison on the Greek island of Lesbos.
"Bruen and Starr's third tag-team free-for-all seems engineered to be a pleasure of the guiltiest kind."-Booklist (starred review)
From the evil geniuses who brought you Bust comes a roller-coaster ride of suspense, mayhem, and vicious fun.
Max Fisher used to run a computer company; Angela Petrakos was his assistant and mistress. But that was last year. Now Max is reinventing himself as a hip-hop crack dealer, and Angela is back in Ireland hooking up with a would-be record setter-in the field of serial killing. Will their paths cross again?
"Hits all the noir buttons and then some...Those with a taste for it will have as much fun reading this novel as the authors obviously had writing it."-Publishers Weekly
From award-winning authors Ken Bruen and Jason Starr comes Bust, an original new noir novel by two of the world's finest crime writers.
Five valuable lessons you can learn by listening to Bust:
When you hire someone to kill your wife, don't hire a psychopath.
Don't use Drano to get rid of a dead body.
Those locks on hotel room doors? They're not very secure.
A curly blond wig isn't much of a disguise.
Secrets can kill.
Karen Daily, recently divorced, lives with her two kids in a quaint suburb of New York City. She's teaching at a nearby elementary school, starting to date again, and for the first time in years has found joy in her life. Mark Berman, Karen's friend and neighbor, wants out of his unhappy marriage, and so does his wife, Deb, but they have been staying together for their kids. Unbeknownst to Karen, Mark has a rich fantasy life about her, which has grown into a full-blown obsession. As rumors about Karen spread and a bigger secret is uncovered, she becomes a murder suspect and the target of a twisted psychopath.
