THE MYSTIC ARTS OF ERASING ALL SIGNS OF DEATH: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 01240008B24550

English Summary/英文概要： With a style that is razor sharp, an eye that never shies from the gritty details, and a taste for stories that simultaneously shock, disturb, and entertain, Charlie Huston is one of a kind. And The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is the type of story–-swift, twisted, hilarious, somehow hopeful--that only he could dream up.

This fantastic new book introduces a new continuing character, Webb Donahue, a very likeable but very lost young man who takes on a very unusual job to earn a buck. Suddenly, he’s part of a clean up crew that sterilizes crime scenes after the cops and docs leave. One mistake soon lands him in a situation even more toxic than the scenes they sterilize When the daughter of a recent Malibu suicide asks for his help to clean up after her brother got in a little trouble, every cell in Webs brain is telling him to turn it down, but something else makes him hit the Harbor Freeway at midnight to help her however he can. Is it her laugh? Her desperate tone of voice? The chance that this might be history’s strangest booty call? Whatever it is, soon enough it’s Web who needs the help when gun-toting California cowboys start showing up on his doorstep. What’s the deal? Is it something to do with what he cleaned up in that motel room in Carson? Or is it all about the brewing war between rival trauma cleaners? Web doesn’t have a clue, but he’ll need to get one if he’s going to keep from getting his face kicked in. Again. And again. And again.

Full of black humor, stunning violence, singular characters, and neon dialogue, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is classic Charlie Huston: a wild ride that’ll leave you breathless and shaken, grinning and begging for more.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 出版過Henry Thompson三部曲(版權已售7國)、Joe Pitt系列(版權已售13國)的知名作者查理‧休斯頓的新書《悄悄抹去死亡的痕跡》將於本月正式出版。驚悚大師史蒂芬．金對此書盛讚不已，還在亞馬遜上專文推薦，認為此書「十分具有原創性」。紐約時報在1/4專文推薦此書，Publishers Weekly也給予星級評鑑 。
有許多事情在提出問題之前是人們常常不會想到的。例如一團亂的犯罪現場到底使誰清理的。「清理犯罪現場與廢物是具有發展性的行業」書中「清潔團隊」的老闆波辛說的，大概也是作者寫作犯罪小說的心得吧。主角Webb Donahue的工作就是負責清理調查過後的犯罪現場。然而有次在清理時，受到死者女兒的請託，請他幫忙處理她弟所搞出的大亂子。即使全身細胞都在告訴他要拒絕，最後仍是敗給了她的笑容，麻煩的事也正要開始~~
查理‧休斯頓的作品總是融合了黑色幽默，寫實、緊湊、詼諧與生動的對話讓史蒂芬．金也成為他的忠實讀者。(VC)

Awards/获奖情况：恐怖大師史蒂芬‧金強力推薦
The New York Times推薦
Books of The Times-- January 4, 2009
They Vacuum Maggots, Don’t They? Novel Delves Into the Trauma Cleaning Trade
Henry Thompson三部曲、Joe Pitt系列暢銷作者
甫出版即登上亞馬遜懸疑小說排行第七名

版權已售：German rights to Heyne and Korean rights to Woongjin/Think Big to MYSTIC ARTS

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“Anyone not acquainted with Charlie Huston’s blistering, unputdownable novels will want to tie their sneakers nice and tight, or they are apt to be blasted clean out of them.”---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

“Huston’s strengths are the brutal efficiency with which he sets a scene, and the breakneck pace he maintains throughout.”---San Francisco Chronicle

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 is the author of The Shotgun Rule, the Henry Thompson trilogy: Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things (an Edgar Award nominee), and A Dangerous Man, and the Joe Pitt novels: Already Dead, No Dominion, Half the Blood of Brooklyn, and Every Last Drop. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Virginia Louise Smith.
作者網站: http://www.pulpnoir.com/
查理‧休斯頓(Charlie Huston)著有Henry Thompson三部曲、Joe Pitt系列。目前與演員妻子Virginia Louise Smith住在洛杉磯。作者作品繁體版權目前皆開放。

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

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