Read A Sample Chapter

THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS CRIME STORY EVER TOLD—
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ONE VOLUME!

When a small-time businessman who’s a legend in his own mind (that would be Max) hatches a plan with his sexpot secretary (that’s Angela) to murder his wife and live happily ever after, you might think everything would go smoothly—but Max and Angela are in for the ride of their lives, as an escalating series of bad decisions and worse luck plunges them into a tsunami of crime and depravity featuring IRA hitmen, an aspiring serial killer, a wheelchair-bound blackmailer, trigger-happy drug dealers, and the warring factions in one of the world’s deadliest prisons.

Award-winning authors Ken Bruen (JACK TAYLOR) and Jason Starr (THE NEXT TIME I DIE) set out to write the wildest crime saga of all time, and the three novels that resulted—originally published as BUST, SLIDE, and THE MAX—earned rave reviews and nominations for the Barry and Anthony Awards. Long unavailable in their original print editions, these cult classics are now collected for the first time ever in a single volume, bringing Max and Angela’s high-octane odyssey back to blow the minds of a new generation of readers.

• Three complete novels in one volume—in trade paperback for the first time ever
• Novels in the Max and Angela trilogy were finalists for the Barry and Anthony Awards
• The fourth and final novel in the series, PIMP, will also be reprinted separately, so fans can devour the whole saga.

"I want to kill these guys—except I can’t stop laughing long enough."

— Lee Child

"Two of the crime fiction world’s brightest talents join forces for...one of the top guilty pleasures of the year."

— Chicago Sun-Times

"This tense, witty, cold-blooded noir...reads seamlessly—and mercilessly."

— Entertainment Weekly

"A full-tilt, rocking homage to noir novels of the 1950s...smart, trashy fun."

— Publishers Weekly, starred review