The Slanted Gutter by S Craig Zahler

The Slanted Gutter by S Craig Zahler

Ricochet through the gutter in this gripping, pull-no-punches thriller from S. Craig Zahler

He knows what you'll do - including what you'll sacrifice for protection.

Darren Tasking is an entrepreneur whose business is people, and when it comes to people he specializes in risk, pleasure, and fear.

He knows what will break you - before you even feel a second of pain.

Tasking has everything and everyone in his orbit under control. If there's something he wants he will alter your life until you yield to his wishes.

He knows what makes the Machos tick - and how to keep them in the dark.

The police tried to keep Tasking down with their macho modus operandi, sent him away long ago. Now he's older, uncommonly careful, and keeps the machos oblivious to his enterprises.

He knows the streets of Great Crown, Florida can only be dominated by the remorseless insights of a relentless slick like him.

The brothels and gambling parlors secreted behind iron doors keep the slick autonomous and successful, but a new dancer named Erin Green proves to be the variable that could put him on a collision course with unrepentant sadists, machos, and a trap created by the slick's own extortionist machinations.

The Slanted Gutter is a devastating character study painted with the darkest shades of noir, penned by a hand as unflinching as Tasking's steely-eyed pursuit of his large dollar goal, as unforgiving on the reader as those who seek retribution against the slick for his nocturnal misdeeds. Step into this gutter at your own risk.

Zahler, S. Craig: - S. Craig Zahler is certain to become one of the great imaginers of our time. -Clive Barker Novelist, Director, Screenwriter, Songwriter, and Drummer S. Craig Zahler was born in Florida and lives in New York. His debut western novel, A Congregation of Jackals was nominated for both the Peacemaker and the Spur awards. His 2014 crime novel Mean Business on North Ganson Street received starred reviews for excellence in Booklist who said the book was bizarrely mean...mordantly funny...and not to be missed, while Kirkus review called it a gripping story. This crime book was quickly optioned by Warner Brothers, who then hired Zahler to do the adaptation himself. His science fiction novel, Corpus Chrome, Inc. was praised by sci-fi grandmaster Larry Niven and called, a bravura literary performance, by Booklist, and his acclaimed book Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child, is a gothic tale that he will bring to the silver screen with the help of his new creative partners, The Jim Henson Company. His sixth novel, a nasty crime piece entitled, The Slanted Gutter, will be published by Chizine Press in 2020. Zahler wrote and directed (and co-composed the score for) the 2015 film Bone Tomahawk, an Independent Spirit Award nominated picture for Best Screenplay, starring Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins. The film garnered praise from critics and fans alike, including the New York Times, who called Bone Tomahawk, [a] witty fusion of western, horror and comedy that gallops to its own beat. Zahler more recently wrote and directed Brawl in Cell Block 99, starring Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, and Don Johnson, which premiered at the prestigious Venice Film Festival and went on to be a New York Times Critic's Pick and even wider critical acclaim. Both movies were added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Zahler's third movie was Dragged Across Concrete, a crime picture that stars Vince Vaughn, Mel Gibson, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, and Jennifer Carpenter. This picture premiered at the 75th Venice Film Festival in 2018 and showed at the London Film Festival and also to a sold out crowd for the closing night of Beyond Fest. [P]uts you on the edge of your seat, (RogerEbert.com); A singular voice in cinema, (Movies in Focus); [A]n idiosyncratic cop movie masterstroke, (Birth.Movies.Death); A sprawling, gritty action noir, gorgeously lit and morally challenging, (Projected Figures); Inventive and nasty, (Guardian); [S]uperb performances, a fabulous script...never goes where you expect, (Nerdly UK); One of genre's most exciting filmmakers (Indiewire). After the release of this third motion picture, Zahler returned to his first artistic passion--illustration--and wrote, drew, and lettered his debut graphic novel, Forbidden Surgeries of the Hideous Dr. Divinus.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781947879270
ISBN 10	1947879278
Title	The Slanted Gutter
Author	S Craig Zahler
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Den of Iniquity Books
Year published	2021-02-25
Number of pages	404
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.