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    The Hard Stuff

    By David Gordon

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  • David Gordon’s first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award.



  • This is the second novel featuring the bold, amusing character of Joe the Bouncer, a mob-connected strip club bouncer, who premiered in our August 2018 publication of Gordon's The Bouncer. Several critics who reviewed the debut commented that they hoped this was the beginning of a series, so they'll be eager to read The Hard Stuff



  • The Bouncer was Gordon's first pure crime caper and immediately put him on the map as a master of the genre. The Bouncer garnered praise that compared Gordon to to Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, and Thomas Perry. The novel was published to starred pre-reviews and a rave review from the The New York Times, and it earned excellent early blurbs from Thomas Perry, Robert Crais, and Max Alan Collins.



  • Many reviewers of The Bouncer commented on the cinematic nature of Gordon's novel, noting that the book has "screen adaptation" written all over it, particularly if it were to become a series.



  • Gordon has real literary chops and his work also appeals to readers who normally aren’t drawn to the mystery genre. He has previously received blurbs from David Ebershoff (The Danish Girl), Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances), Karen Russell (Swamplandia!), Karen Thompson Walker (Age of Miracles), and Rebecca Lee (Bobcat and Other Stories), among others, and has garnered critical claim from a range of outlets, including starred pre-pub reviews.
  • Gordon is a literary celebrity in Japan, where he won three awards for The Serialist: the Kono-Mys Award for Best Mystery in Translation, the Bunsun’s Best Mystery Award, and the Hayakawa Best Mystery Award. It was the first time in history that one book has won all three awards, and a subsequent Japanese feature film adaptation of the novel catapulted the book to the top of Japanese bestseller lists.
  • Gordon is a visiting assistant professor in writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and his work has appeared in The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Purple, Fence, and the New York Times Magazine (for which he wrote a piece called “Big in Japan”).
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMysterious Press
    Release dateJul 2, 2019
    ISBN9780802129574
    Author

    David Gordon

    David Gordon was born in New York City. He attended Sarah Lawrence College and holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature and an MFA in Writing, both from Columbia University, and has worked in film, fashion, publishing, and pornography. His first novel, The Serialist, won the VCU/Cabell First Novel Award and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. His work has also appeared in The Paris Review, Purple, and Fence among other publications.

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      “If you felt the law was not there for you, then you might not be all that inclined to obey it. The rules of the game become meaningless when you realize the game is rigged.”This book picks up right after the first one, with Joe the Bouncer tying up a loose end from the gun heist debacle. (Chapter 1 pretty much summarizes the first book, if you haven’t read it).The diamond heist is brilliant! The costumes, ambulance, and baby - just brilliant! And the whole book is another fun ride with Joe and his crew trying to outwit the authorities, and stay alive at the same time! I'm hoping there is another Joe the Bouncer book in the making!Great ending too, with Joe and Gio on a boat - "So the two friends sat in silence, floating on the surface of the ocean, watching the first specks of dawn begin to gather, like motes on the far rim of the world. Meanwhile, in the water around them, the sharks were closing in."