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Sunday, August 15, 2010More news on THE RANGER We're still a ways from the release of THE RANGER. But here's a sneak peak of the action from the official G.P. Putnam's Sons catalog out this fall: THE RANGER From the acclaimed, award-winning author comes the beginning of an extraordinary new series about a real hero, and the real Deep South. Northeast Mississippi, hill country, rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War, where killings are as commonplace as in the Old West. To Quinn Colson, it’s home – but not the home he left when he went to Afghanistan. Now an Army Ranger, he returns to a place overrun by corruption, and his uncle, the county sheriff, dead – a suicide, he’s told, but others whisper murder. In the days that follow, it will be up to Colson to discover the truth, not only about his uncle, but about his family, his friends, his town, and , not least of all, himself. And once discovered, there is no turning back. This is the series Ace Atkins’ fans have been waiting for. Ace Atkins is the author of White Shadow, Wicked City, Devil’s Garden, Infamous, and four Nick Travers novels. He lives on a farm outside Oxford, Mississippi.
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Sound's not unlike Ross Macdonald's 'Blue City' (not that the type of plot is unique to Macdonald. Hell, BC itself was a riff on Hammett.)
Anyway, you've got at least one fan waiting for the book!
Gordon, you are a pretty sharp reader. BLUE CITY was absolutely an inspiration for my book. As Red Harvest was for Macdonald. But Blue City was about a soldier and more in line with the books I'm writing now. What a terrific hard-boiled novel that not many people read any more.
Was the first Macdonald I read, as it goes. (not sure if you're aware of comics but Ed Brubaker's first crime series --he's a pertty big deal in crime comics now-- was a series called SCENE OF THE CRIME, which was a riff on Macdonald and both it and a terrible, terrible movie version both led me to the book.)
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