Never Count Out the Dead - Softcover

Teran, Boston

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312980205 ISBN 13: 9780312980207

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2002

Synopsis

Boston Teran's debut, God is a Bullet, a taut, dark, and astonishing literary suspense novel, was short-listed for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and won England's Crime Writers Association's John Creasey Memorial Dagger for Best First Novel.

Now, with Never Count Out the Dead, Teran exceeds the extraordinary achievement of his debut, delivering a tour de force tale of a murder gone wrong and a victim bent on revenge.

In a rundown Los Angeles bungalow, Shay Storey sits across a battered Formica table watching her mother clean the semi-automatic they will use for a killing. It is 1987 and Shay is just thirteen. Their intended victim is a local policeman named Victor Sully. Shay and her mother shoot him and bury him in a shallow grave in the desert northeast of Los Angeles, but somehow, some way, Sully claws his way to survival.

His life, though, is destroyed anyway, and he slips out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness, a broken man. It is more than ten years later that these three lost souls meet again to play out the inevitable drama set in motion by that first violent meeting in the desert, each searching for revenge, and perhaps, redemption.

Riveting, powerful, and brilliantly written, Never Count Out the Dead is an unforgettable reading experience that will linger in your brain long after the last page is turned.

About this title

About the Author

BOSTON TERAN's debut novel, God is a Bullet, was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and winner of the John Creasey Memorial Dagger for Best First Novel. He was born in the South Bronx and now lives in Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312980205
• ISBN 13: 9780312980207
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 401