No Hard Feelings (August Riordan) - Softcover

Coggins, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937495914 ISBN 13: 9781937495916

Publisher: Down & Out Books, 2016

Synopsis

Winnie doesn’t remember the last time she felt anything below her neck. Her spine is severed at the seventh vertebrae, but thanks to implants from a sabotaged biomedical start-up, she has regained mobility. She is a prototype: a living, breathing-walking-demonstration of revolutionary technology that never made it to market. Her disability has become her armor. Because she doesn’t register fatigue, she has trained relentlessly. Her hand, arm, and leg strength are off the scales for a woman, and she has honed self-defense techniques to channel that strength. She’s a modern-day Amazon who feels no pain. When the sociopath who torpedoed the start-up sends killers to harvest the implants from her body, Winnie must team up with broken-down private investigator August Riordan to save both their lives—and derail sinister plans for perverse military applications of the technology. Praise for books by Mark Coggins “A bang-bang thrill ride. Winnie is a female Jack Reacher.” —Seth Harwood, author In Broad Daylight “Smart, stylish, sexy and amusingly insouciant...a panoramic tour de fource.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Gritty...seamy...very, very funny. [Coggins] has given the form fresh life.” —National Public Radio “Dry ice sarcasm...and plenty of nasty chuckles in route.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Coggins hauls on a dark, hip journey.” —Detroit Free Press “Coggins writes tight prose with a clean, unadorned style; he is a Hammett for the turn of the 21st century.” —Loren D. Estleman “Utterly entertaining” —Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

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Praise for books by Mark Coggins

"Smart, stylish, sexy and amusingly insouciant... a panoramic tour de force." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Gritty... seamy... very, very funny. [Coggins] has given the form fresh life." --National Public Radio

"[D]ry ice sarcasm... and plenty of nasty chuckles in route." --Wall Street Journal

"Outstanding... Coggins pulls no punches." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"Coggins hauls us on a dark, hip journey." --Detroit Free Press

"Coggins writes tight prose with a clean, unadorned style; he is a Hammett for the turn of the 21st century." --Loren D. Estleman

"Utterly entertaining." -Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

"To borrow a description from the jazz magazine Downbeat, Coggins is Talent Deserving Wider Recognition." -January Magazine

"Smart, funny, spooky... often touching." -James Crumley

"He's a gifted storyteller who infuses not only humor to balance out the brutality, but also throws in plenty of pulp-like affectations, leaving readers to clamor for more." -Bookgasm

Review

"A bang-bang thrill ride. Winnie is a female Jack Reacher." --Seth Harwood, author of In Broad Daylight

"August Riordan returns in a fast-paced new novel that is equal parts hard-boiled and tech thriller... Mark Coggins' No Hard Feelings is a blast to read. Fans of James W. Hall and Brendan DuBois will find a lot to like." --Ian Kern, Mysterious Bookshop
"Hits you like an avalanche and carries you along at a breakneck pace." --John Hegenberger, Have Fun

"Blockbuster... an engaging and fun read." --Jochem Vandersteen, Sons of Spade

About this edition

• Publisher: Down & Out Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1937495914
• ISBN 13: 9781937495916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304