THE SHOTGUN RULE

Book ID/图书代码： 01240006B07766

English Summary/英文概要： The first stand-alone thriller by critically acclaimed author Charlie Huston, The Shotgun Rule is a raw tale of four teenage friends who go looking for a little trouble–and find it. Blood spilled on the asphalt of this town long years gone has left a stain, and it’s spreading. Not that a thing like that matters to teenagers like George, Hector, Paul, and Andy. It’s summer 1983 in a northern California suburb, and these working-class kids have been killing time the usual ways: ducking their parents, tinkering with their bikes, and racing around town getting high and boosting their neighbors’ meds. Just another typical summer break in the burbs. Till Andy’s bike is stolen by the town’s legendary petty hoods, the Arroyo brothers. When the boys break into the Arroyos’ place in search of the bike, they stumble across the brothers’ private industry: a crank lab. Being the kind of kids who rarely know better, they do what comes naturally: they take a stash of crank to sell for quick cash. But doing so they unleash hidden rivalries and crimes, and the dark and secret past of their town and their families.
The spreading stain is drawing local drug lords, crooked cops, hard-riding bikers, and the brutal history of the boys’ fathers in its wake.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1983年的北加州市郊，George、Hector、Paul、Andy這來自四個藍領階級的孩子，就像一般的青少年，整天只想著要如何躲避父母的管教，閒來無事就改裝腳踏車，只為了能在鎮上賽車。但就在這個暑假，Andy的腳踏車遭竊。四個孩子為了找尋愛車，闖進了惡名昭彰的Arroyo兄弟家中，意外發現Arroyo兄弟製造毒品的實驗室。天真的他們想和Arroyo兄弟示威，於是偷走了一些毒品轉賣。不過他們誰也沒想到，這個舉動會揭開小鎮黑暗的過去。原來小鎮從前是個罪惡之城，整個小鎮皆由控制毒販，不僅警察與黑道掛勾，甚至連其中一名男孩的父親，也與小鎮的黑暗過去脫離不了關聯。

Awards/获奖情况：Praise for Charlie Huston
“Huston is one of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century, and The Shotgun Rule only confirms his talent, his grasp of dialogue and machine-gun narration . . . and his heart. There’s a lot of blood in this book, and a lot of heart. It’s Stand By Me on dexedrine.”–Stephen King
“Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston . . . is where it’s at.”–The Washington Post
“Huston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road.”–The New York Times Book Review
Caught Stealing
“[A] fantastically hopped-up thriller . . . a wrong-man plot worthy of Hitchcock.” –Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice)
“Anyone not acquainted with Charlie Huston’s blistering, unputdownable novels will want to tie their sneakers nice and tight before starting The Shotgun Rule, or they are apt to be blasted clean out of them.” –Stephen King

Publishers: Chinese Simplified (Shanghai Haolin), Chinese Complex (Spring), Dutch (Muelenhoff Boekerij), Finnish (Like), French (Editions Points), German (Verlagsgruppe RH), Greek (Oxy), Hungarian (Cartaphilus Kiado), Italian (RCS Libri, Fanucci, Edizioni BD), Korean (Woongjin), Norwegian (Giga Forlag), Portuguese (Texto), Romanian (Humanitas), Russian (AST), Spanish (Alianza, RH Mondadori).

About the Author/作者介绍： Charlie Huston為美國著名的犯罪小說家，其中Six Bad Things曾獲第六十屆愛倫波獎(Edgar Award)決賽提名。目前Huston與演員妻子Virginia Louise Smith居住於洛杉磯。
Charlie Huston is the author of the Henry Thompson Trilogy: Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things (an Edgar Award-nominee), and A Dangerous Man, as well as the Joe Pitt novels: Already Dead and No Dominion. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Virginia Louise Smith.

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