Potter's Field
Rob Hart
(Author)
Description
Ash McKenna is my favorite kind of hero, a tough guy romantic with a smart mouth and a dark past.--Chelsea Cain The final book in Rob Hart's acclaimed Ash McKenna series shows that Ash can go home again...but it might cost him everything. Amateur private investigator Ash McKenna is home. After more than a year on the road he's ready to face the demons he ran away from in New York City. And he's decided what he wants to do with his life: Become a private investigator, for real. Licensed and everything. No more working as a thug for hire. But within moments of stepping off the plane, Ginny Tonic, the drag queen crime lord who once employed him--and then tried to have him killed--asks to see him. One of her newest drag queen soldiers has gone missing, and Ginny suspects she's been ensnared by the burgeoning heroin scene on Staten Island. Ginny wants Ash to find her. Because he's the best, and because he knows Staten Island, his home borough. Ash is hesitant--but Ginny's offer of $10,000 is enough to get him on his feet. And the thought of a lost kid and a bereft family is too much for him to bear. He accepts, and quickly learns there's something much bigger at play. Some very dangerous people are vying for control of the heroin trade on Staten Island, which is recording the highest rate of overdose deaths in the city. As Ash navigates deadly terrain, he find his most dangerous adversary might be his own past. Because those demons he ran away from have been waiting for him to come back.Product Details
Price
$25.99
$24.17
Publisher
Polis Books
Publish Date
July 10, 2018
Pages
304
Dimensions
5.9 X 1.1 X 8.6 inches | 1.15 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781943818938
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About the Author
Rob Hart is the author of four acclaimed previous Ash McKenna novels: NEW YORKED, CITY OF ROSE, SOUTH VILLAGE, and THE WOMAN FROM PRAGUE. His short stories have appeared in publications like Shotgun Honey, Thuglit, Needle, Helix Literary Magazine, and Joyland. He has received both a Derringer Award nomination and honorable mention in The Best American Mystery Stories 2015. His non-fiction articles have been featured at LitReactor, Salon, The Daily Beast, The Good Men Project, Birth.Movies.Death., the Powell's bookstore blog, and Nailed. He lives in New York City. Find him online at @robwhart and www.robwhart.com.
Reviews
Praise for POTTER'S FIELD "Brings the series to a satisfying close...gripping action sequences...Hart has a fine command of wiseguy comments, a modern take on the noir crime idiom, and enough vulnerability in his protagonist to make the reader sorry to see the last of Ash." --Publishers Weekly "(A) fast-paced, adventure-packed read. Hart knows his Staten Island setting well and makes strong use of it." --Library Journal "An unusual and quite affecting crime novel...we agree with a fellow PI who describes our hero as 'a good kid trying to do the right thing.'" --Booklist "I bulleted through the novel in one sitting...The music of Bronx River Parkway, the Die Hard movies, Casablanca, and pizza, lots of delicious New York pizza, lend Potter's Field its McKennaesque feel, as does peripatetic Ash's take-home realization: 'Doesn't matter where you live. It only matters how.'" --Daneet Steffans, Seattle Review of Books "Stunning...If you're not reading Rob Hart's stuff, you should be. A gripping thriller that wraps up one of the genre's most underrated series." --The Real Book Spy
Praise for Rob Hart's Ash McKenna series
"THE WOMAN FROM PRAGUE keeps you hooked with its fast-paced story set in the treacheries and terrors of our post-9/11 world." --James Grady, author of SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR
"One of the best books of the summer...The Woman From Prague has great pace, a fascinating relationship between the central characters, and superb atmosphere." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"A hot summer read." --The Boston Globe on The Woman From Prague
"A spy thriller in all the genre's old school glory." --Booklist on The Woman From Prague
"One of the best mysteries of the year." --Boston Globe on South Village
"Excellent." --Seattle Review of Books on South Village
"Terrifically written, and populated with rich characters, this book had me by the throat from page one." --Chelsea Cain, New York Times bestselling author of ONE KICK and HEARTSICK on CITY OF ROSE
"Brilliant...CITY OF ROSE, Rob Hart's latest Ash McKenna novel, is as sharp as the devil himself. Hart is a master storyteller who can turn a city into just as vital as any flesh and blood character." --Brian Panowich, author of BULL MOUNTAIN
"Well executed and strikes an appealing balance, rough without being sadistic, gritty without being sordid. ...an engaging read...characterized by Hart's quick and witty turns of phrase." --Kirkus Reviews
"The New York of NEW YORKED is a place of heartbreak and murder that I highly recommend you visit." --Josh Bazell, author of BEAT THE REAPER
"Outstanding...I loved NEW YORKED. It may be the most quixotic hard-boiled I've read in ages. With clever nods to Chandler and lots of muscular metaphors, Hart has written an achingly lovely farewell to one man's past." --Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"(Hart is) a hard-boiled crime novelist in the vein of greats like Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain, not to mention modern masters like Lawrence Block and Dennis Lehane." --Staten Island Advance
