Three Chords & The Truth: A Hector Lassiter novel - Softcover

McDonald, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993433111 ISBN 13: 9780993433115

Publisher: Betimes Books, 2016

Synopsis

In 2007, the Hector Lassiter series launched with "Head Games", a literary thriller set along the borderlands of 1957 America—a road novel that met with ecstatic reviews and international awards attention, including Edgar and Anthony nominations for Best First Novel by an American Author. With "Three Chords & The Truth", Craig McDonald at last sets the capstone on the Hector Lassiter series and legend.

Winter, 1958: Nashville, Tennessee is locked in an icy snow storm doing nothing to cool racial tensions in Music City, USA, or points farther south. Following a midair collision, a U.S. military crew has been forced to dump a hydrogen bomb off the coast of South Carolina—a deadly device still there today, a weapon of mass destruction whose nuclear trigger may be rest rusting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, potentially still threatening the east coast well into the 21st Century.

Once again, forgotten history and historical figures are reanimated and given new life and relevance through the Hector Lassiter series—nothing less than a literary secret history of 20th Century America. In an up-from-the-heels voice that recalls his first-person narration of "Head Games", Hector once again tells his own remarkable story, one that rounds out the saga BookPage has called “wildly inventive” and The Chicago Tribune calls “most unusual, and readable crime fiction to come along in years.” This is a vintage Lassiter novel, at last revealing the ultimate fate of the author-screenwriter famous for living what he wrote and writing about what he lived.

About this title

About the Author

Craig McDonald is an award-winning author and journalist. The Hector Lassiter series has been published to international acclaim in numerous languages. McDonald’s debut novel "Head Games" was nominated for Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe awards in the U.S. and the 2011 Sélection du prix polar Saint-Maur en Poche in France.
The Lassiter series has been enthusiastically endorsed by a who’s who of crime fiction authors including: Michael Connelly, Laura Lippmann, Daniel Woodrell, James Crumley, James Sallis, Diana Gabaldon, and Ken Bruen, among many others.
Craig McDonald is also the author of two highly praised non-fiction volumes on the subject of mystery and crime fiction writing, "Art in the Blood" and "Rogue Males", nominated for the Macavity Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: Betimes Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0993433111
• ISBN 13: 9780993433115
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336