<div><b>Six stories from the papers of one of America&rsquo;s finest crime authors<BR><BR></b>Roger doesn&rsquo;t mean for the preacher and his wife to die. Released less than a year earlier from San Quentin, he&rsquo;s trying to make a living the only way he knows how: theft. His latest heist goes perfectly until his car breaks down. Sirens are closing in when an old black preacher stops to give him a lift. The police at the roadblock kill the elderly couple, but in the eyes of the law it&rsquo;s Roger&rsquo;s fault. And he will die in the gas chamber at San Quentin&mdash;unless he can break out first. Roger&rsquo;s incredible story anchors this collection of short fiction by Edward Bunker, who knew better than anyone what it means to be a criminal, inside and outside of prison. In these stories, which were unpublished at the time of his death in 2005, he shows again the talent that made him such a remarkable writer.</div>

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Death Row Breakout

<div><B>An ex-con struggles to adjust to life outside prison walls </B><B>in &ldquo;one of the great crime novels of the past 30 years&rdquo; (James Ellroy).</B><BR /><BR /> After eight years spent locked up, Max has gotten very good at being a prisoner. He knows the guards, the inmates, and how to survive. But the parole board has decided that he has sufficiently reformed, and it&rsquo;s time for him to say goodbye. When Max reaches the outside world, he finds that freedom doesn&rsquo;t make anything easier.<BR />  <BR /> Based on his own experiences in prison, Edward Bunker first drafted <I>No Beast So Fierce</I> in the 1950s, while incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison. He spent the next two decades in and out of jail, writing essays for various magazines and working on the novel, which was finally published in 1973. Eighteen months later, the book was used as evidence that he was fit to leave jail. He received parole, and spent the rest of his life a free man.<BR />  <BR /> Rooted in real-life experiences and hailed by Quentin Tarantino&mdash;who cast Bunker in his film <I>Reservoir Dogs</I>&mdash;as &ldquo;the best first person crime novel I have ever read,&rdquo; <I>No Beast So Fierce </I>is a gritty and compelling read like no other.<BR />  </div>

No Beast So Fierce

<div><B>&ldquo;</B><B>The best novel about armed robbery ever written&rdquo; from the <I>Reservoir Dogs</I> actor and ex-con author of <I>No Beast So Fierce</I> (James Ellroy).</B><BR />  Troy was born in Beverly Hills but raised in the prisons of Southern California. Two days before his parole from reform school, a run-in with a young black tough threatens to derail his release. He prepares to fight, ready to sacrifice freedom to maintain his reputation, but a friend comes to his rescue. Armed with two razor blades, Mad Dog takes out Troy&rsquo;s assailant, allowing his friend to go free. Troy does not forget the debt. Years later, Mad Dog makes a living on penny-ante heists, and Troy&mdash;who has grown into one of the smartest hoods in L.A.&mdash;is about to finish a stint in San Quentin. They join up with another old friend, Diesel Carson, and launch a spree vicious enough to put them in jail for the rest of their lives. But these three would rather die than return to prison.</div>

Dog Eat Dog

<div><P>Raised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous.<br>Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster homes and institutions, yearning to be with his father, a broken man who cannot give his son the home he desperately needs.  The only constant in Alex's life is no-good, criminally-minded peers, who are all too ready to plant illegal ideas in an intelligent mind.  Bunker writes, "His unique potential would develop into unique destructiveness."</P></div>

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