Brash on the Cutting Edge
Published: Thu, 03/11/21
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The majority of our Cutting Edge titles are long-lost crime novels and thrillers... but, unlike Brash, the imprint also covers many other genres, including westerns, literary fiction, and some non-fiction. Over the last few months, we've quietly published nearly a hundred titles under the Cutting Edge imprint... including some amazing, ground-breaking, and highly-acclaimed crime fiction that we think you'll love. Here's a sampling of some of our favorites: FACE OF MY ASSASSIN by Carolyn Westin and Jan Huchins
It's 1959. Matthew Scott is a widowed, alcoholic reporter from New York who seeks personal and professional redemption when he's sent to the Deep South to write about a town that is defying a U.S. Supreme Court decision to integrate blacks into schools. His mere presence is a catalyst that ignites long-buried racial, political, religious, and personal conflicts among the residents, both white and black, ripping the town apart. Those tensions violently explode when Scott is falsely arrested by the bigoted, tyrannical sheriff for the rape and murder of an out-spoken black schoolteacher. This is a stunning, shockingly vivid portrait of a dark time in America's history, a tale of intolerance, bigotry and hope that's as relevant today as it was sixty years ago... "An exciting melodrama dealing with integration in the South...a thorough examination of southern racial attitudes. The book has the power to move and enlighten readers." —Los Angeles Times "Written in a smooth, expert style, [with] a plot that outdoes Faulkner in imagination." —Dan Wakefield, The Saturday Review THE MURDER SPECIALIST by Bud Clifton (aka David Stacton)
Hal Williams is a specialist with one particular talent to sell: contract murders that appear to be accidents. He's a professional who does his job with cool, calm, and calculated detachment...or so it seems. It's all part of a long-term plan for ultimate revenge. But just when everything is coming together... he meets Unne, a mobster's coldly sensual mistress, a kindred spirit with a dark, devastating secret of her own... and everything changes. "John Banville comes to mind as an author who so easily switches gears from fustian to fetid... it is fascinating to watch Stacton working out in the noirs the kind of novelist he would become. From the beginning, Stacton is drawn to a certain kind of person, the kind who is the 'victim of the propulsive force of his own character.'" —Los Angeles Review of Books "The prose of David Stacton is like that of no other writer. It suggests a corridor in a dark Gothic tower, ill-lit by tapers, at one end of which a gong sounds incessantly." —Time Magazine PIECES OF THE GAME by Lee Gifford
Shortly before the U.S. and Filipino forces surrendered to the Japanese on May 6, 1942, they dumped all of Manila's silver pesos, valued at $8 million, into the deep water south of Caballo Bay. The Japanese want the fortune, so they force seven American POWs to dive into the cold depths to help recover it... or face torture and death... One man survives to tell the tale but that harrowing adventure is only the prelude to the rest of his story, set long after the war is over, when he returns to Manila to face an old, ruthless enemy. THE SCARLET VENUS by Chalmers Green
Soldier McQuade is a prizefighter in New York who goes back to his rural home when his widowed sister-in-law dies, leaving behind two kids. He’s accompanied by Tennessee Bell, his other sister-in-law, who is on the run from a violent lover. But that simple, seemingly conventional starting point doesn't begin to do this story justice... and to say more would spoil the stunning plot twists that veer shockingly away from every cliché. "A must-read for noir fans! More than sixty years after it was published, this book remains an exhilarating, wildly creative take on all the tropes and clichés of noir that, at the time, weren't tropes or clichés yet. It's hard to believe Chalmers Green didn't write another book or become famous. Or did he under another name? It's an intriguing mystery." —Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author MURDER ON THE ROCKS by Robert Dietrich
"The Steve Bentley series simply rocks, a string of entertaining high-energy, hard-boiled romps that are perfect examples of the late fifties/early sixties paperback P.I." —The Thrilling Detective Ex-spy Steve Bentley works as a Washington D.C. accountant with a tendancy to get into trouble... and this time it comes from two women, Iris Sewell and her sister Sara, daughters of an American diplomat. A 29-carat emerald known as Madagascar Green is missing from their father’s safe…and the search for it soon pits Steve against drug smugglers and killers. "Howard Hunt chose Washington, DC, as the setting for the Robert Dietrich thrillers starring Steve Bentley. He writes knowledgeably of the broken down bars, the seedy downtown area, the life along the wharfs in his hard-boiled pages." —Gore Vidal, New York Times "Steve Bentley [is] series fiction's toughest tax accountant. This is one of the better books in the Bentley series and most of the tough narrative rings true." —Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller, 1001 Midnights, The Aficionado's Guide to Detective Fiction "As 'Robert Dietrich,' E. Howard Hunt wrote ten novels starring Steve Bentley, a Washington D.C. accountant who solves murders in private-eye style. The first thing to know about Bentley is that he isn't just a paper-pushing CPA. He's a Korean War veteran who was employed at one time by the U.S. Treasury Department. If you love vintage crime-fiction you should enjoy this tale." —The Paperback Warrior ROOT OF EVIL by James Cross
Jim McCabe was just another ex-GI trying to scribble a living as a writer in Hollywood until he discovers a chest of century-old gold coins buried in his backyard… and decides to keep it, smuggle the coins to Europe, and sell them for a fortune. But there are plenty of people who want to take his treasure from him and are willing to kill the people he loves to do it in this chilling tale of lust, greed and murder. "A fast-paced, hot-breathing tale... amazingly credible."—Bestseller Magazine "Vividly realistic." —Sydney Morning Herald "Thrilling, mystifying and suspenseful to the very end." —New York Morning Telegraph "A tough thriller that starts on a hot California afternoon and ends in a savage, sadistic grudge fight in a ruined castle on the Rhine." —The Observer (London) "Six deaths and a great deal of anguish provide the title as well as a read-it-at-one-sitting chiller." —Fort Worth Star-Telegram "A fast-moving tale of intrigue, murder and extortion told in a snappy, hardboiled style." —Pulpetti THE COMPLETE RICHARD HIMMEL
Throughout the 1950s, Richard worked by day as an interior designer and at night as a successful writer of paperback original crime novels. His first book, I'll Find You, was a massive, multi-million copy bestseller that almost single-handedly put Fawcett Crest's famed "Gold Medal Paperbacks" on the literary map. He followed that book with four sequels in the "Johnny Maguire" series and four stand-alone novels. At this point, his career as an interior designer was exploding, making him a national (and soon an international) sensation, so he took almost 20 years away from the typewriter, before returning to print with a trio of big, sexy, global spy thrillers in 1977.
You can find out more about the collection here. These are just a few of the many great crime novels and thrillers under our new Cutting Edge imprint. You can visit the site to find out more... but don't worry, we'll keep you updated from time-to-time on the latest "lost" novels that we think you'll want to discover. If you'd like to keep up on our latest Cutting Edge releases, please sign up for our newsletter here.
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We've got some exciting news! Brash Books has launched 
A lost literary classic, back-in-print for the first time in 60 YEARS, a powerful novel in the tradition of IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
"A stylistic virtuoso, matching on the typewriter the lightning flashes of such musical masters as Paganini on the violin." —The Chicago Tribune
"This novel kicks total ass. Pieces of the Game is like a deep-water, Clive Cussler treasure hunt crossed with The Great Escape, with enough intrigue and action to rival both." —Paperback Warrior
A wickedly subversive, unpredictable and powerful hard-boiled masterpiece… lost for generations, now rediscovered.
The First Novel in the Steve Bentley Series
An Edgar Award Winner for Best First Novel!
All TWELVE full novels by Richard Himmel, one of the greatest hard-boiled crime writers of the "Gold Medal" era, in one volume.
Our release of this big, bold collection—along with our release of the individual titles—scored 
