The Stalker

by Bill Pronzini

Overview

Men who participated in a never solved robbery of an armored truck are being picked off one-by-one 11 years after the crime.

"Pronzini makes people and events so real that you're living those explosive days of terror."
-Robert Ludlum

"Once in a crocodile's age you come across a writer whose work you instinctively like... I've found one-Bill Pronzini. Buy him, read him, and relax."
-Los Angeles Times

"Pronzini is the master of the shivery, spine-tingling it-could-happen suspense story."
-Publisher's Weekly

"Pronzini is a pro."
-The New York Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612321035
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes, LLC
Publication date:	07/06/2011
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Bill Pronzini is simply one of the masters. He seems to have taken a crack at just about every genre: mysteries, noirish thrillers, historicals, locked-room mysteries, adventure novels, spy capers, men's action, westerns, and, of course, his masterful, long-running Nameless private detective series, now entering its fourth decade, with no signs of creative flagging.

He's also ghosted several Brett Halliday short stories as Michael Shayne for Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine, and has managed to collaborate with such fellow writers as John Lutz, Barry Wahlberg, Collin Wilcox and Marcia Muller.

Still, if he never ventured into fiction writing, his non-fiction work, as both writer and editor, would still earn him a place in the P.I. genre's Hall of Fame. Besides his two tributes to some of the very worst in crime fiction (what he calls "alternative classics"), Gun in Cheek and Son of Gun in Cheek, and one on western fiction (entitled Six Gun in Cheek, naturally), he's the co-author (with Marcia Muller) of 1001 Midnights.

The Mystery Writers of America have nominated him for Edgar Awards several times and his work has been translated into numerous languages and he's published in almost thirty countries. He was the very first president of the Private Eye Writers of America, and he's received three Shamus Awards from them, as well as its Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987.