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New Yorked

by Rob Hart
New Yorked

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ISBN13: 9781940610405
ISBN10: 1940610400
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"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

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"One part Dennis Lehane, one part Lee Child, and one part pure Rob Hart." Jenny Milchman, author of COVER OF SNOW and RUIN FALLS

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"With a deft eye for the dirt under its polished fingernails, Rob Hart finds the rotten core inside today's Big Apple." Todd Robinson, author of THE HARD BOUNCE and editor of THUGLIT

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"...the literary version of THE WARRIORS." Lyndsay Faye, author of THE GODS OF GOTHAM

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"... New York is a verb, and the chase is on. You won't be able to turn the pages fast enough." Suzy Vitello, author of THE MOMENT BEFORE and THE EMPRESS CHRONICLES

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"... Like a sucker punch to the guts before you turn the first page." Matthew McBride, author of FRANK SINATRA IN A BLENDER and A SWOLLEN RED SUN

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"Edgy...relentless pacing and strong sense of place." Publishers Weekly

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"There are good action scenes, nice offbeat characters, but what lingers is the swoony dialogue....Noir with a tingle of doomed but sweet romance." Booklist

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"A masterful debut... this is a book that sticks with you." CrimeSpree Magazine

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"A bloody valentine to a New York fast disappearing, this debut is an urban noir populated with memorable characters." Library Journal

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Nominated for the Anthony Award for Best First Novel
Ash McKenna is a blunt instrument. Find someone, scare someone, carry something; point him at the job, he gets it done. He generally accepts money upon completion, though a bottle of whiskey works, too--he's comfortable working on a barter system. It's not the career he dreamed about (archeologist) but it keeps him comfortable in his ever-changing East Village neighborhood.
That's until Chell, the woman he loves, leaves him a voicemail looking for help--a voicemail he gets two hours after her body is found. Ash hunts for her killer with the grace of a wrecking ball, running afoul of a drag queen crime lord and stumbling into a hard-boiled role playing game that might be connected to a hipster turf war.
Along the way, he's forced to face the memories of his tumultuous relationship with Chell, his unresolved anger over his father s death, and the consequences of his own violent tendencies.
NEW YORKED takes you deep into the seedy underbelly of New York with an unforgettable literary voice steeped in the classic noir tradition, and a glimpse at a city disappearing right before our very eyes."

About the Author

Rob Hart is the associate publisher at MysteriousPress.com and the class director at LitReactor. Previously, he has been a political reporter, the communications director for a politician, and a commissioner for the city of New York. Rob is the author of The Last Safe Place: A Zombie Novella, and his short stories have appeared in publications like Thuglit, NEEDLE, Shotgun Honey, All Due Respect, and Helix Literary Magazine. He lives in New York City. Follow Rob Hart online at robwhart.com and @robwhart.


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Rachel Kramer Bussel , August 10, 2015 (view all comments by Rachel Kramer Bussel)
I read this book and was utterly engrossed, not because I love a good mystery, but because of Ash's voice. He is lovelorn, trying to get over the death of his ex, Chell, even though it's not totally clear just what kind of ex she was, he is also determined to get revenge for her death. He starts off on a journey that takes him all over New York City, across boroughs and bridges, but also across generations and gentrification. The book weaves from his present, visiting various underworlds with a brash fearlessness that comes from having lost pretty much everything, to his past, trying to figure out what his dad's death and legacy have meant to him. I am not actually much of a noir reader, but I don't think you have to be to be drawn into this story. Through Ash's attempts to peel back the layers of what happened to Chell, he also has to peel back his own layers, his own romanticism about New York, a much-changed city, and about his own place in it. This is a mystery at its heart, but I also found myself caring less about the exact whodunnit and more about how Ash worms his way in and out of trouble. For me, Ash's scrappiness, his willingness to do anything to get to the bottom of Chell's death, including go up against people who are clearly better armed and far more dangerous, was the biggest draw of this book, even more than the actual outcome, which is my usual way of approaching a mystery. It's to Hart's credit that I almost didn't want him to solve it, because I didn't want the story to end. I look forward to reading the next book in the series for that precise reason.

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jermmurphy , June 12, 2015
I've been anticipating the release of New Yorked for some time now. The author, Rob Hart, is the class director over at LitReactor, a site I frequent almost daily. I was also a fan of Unprintable, LitReactors now defunct podcast (over a year since the last episode) which Rob Hart co-hosted. Rob Hart and that podcast turned me on to some of my favorite books. One title for which I am eternally grateful is "Kiss me, Judas." Part neo-noir, part scary love story. I couldn't get enough of Will Christopher Baer's nightmarish prose. So as Someone who hold's the author in such high esteem, when I cracked open New Yorked I had some very high expectations. Expectations which were quickly exceeded as I burned through the book late into the night. Ash McKenna is a blunt instrument. Roaming through New York's criminal underbelly with the grace of a wrecking ball, trying to solve of the mystery of what happened to the woman he loved, while being haunted by the hard truths of his past. Ash loves New York. He was raised in New York, but he's also feeling disillusioned and rejected by the city. He lashes out as the cards continue to stack against him, cracking a few skulls and unfortunately bruising a few friendships along the way. The climax of the book hinges on Ash finding some semblance of redemption. The best noir always is. Rob Hart writes with dark and powerful prose. My head was flooded with notable comparisons as I read, but having finished I've got to say Rob Hart is all his own. I'll finish with probably my favorite line from the book. "Time is supposed to heal all wounds. Which is a thing people say when they've never been cut to the bone. The big wounds, even when they do heal, they don't heal right. Every time you move you feel the tug of the scar tissue."

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Bracken MacLeod , June 03, 2015 (view all comments by Bracken MacLeod)
Ash McKenna wakes up one morning from a drunken blackout to find a voice mail from his ex-girlfriend, left moments before she was murdered. He sets out on a quest-qua-vendetta to find her killer, and everything unravels from there. New Yorked is part Eight Million Ways to Die, and part Red Harvest meets the Warriors. As a detective novel, New Yorked is good. It hits the expected high notes of the genre while providing enough novelty to keep it the story fresh and interesting. By that standard alone, New Yorked is a solid four star story with great pacing, an interesting protagonist, and plenty of action. However, the brilliance of New Yorked--and what kicks it up to five stars for me--is the parallel of Ash’s relationship to his murdered girlfriend and his relationship to the city. As an existential meditation on the struggle against mortality, this book is a thing of near perfection. *New York* is the real victim of the novel--or, at least, the New York that Ash McKenna once loved. While he’s searching for the literal killer who murdered his ex, he guides the reader on a tour of the people responsible for murdering his real love, the once dirty, dangerous New York you had to earn your way into. The “gents” (out of towners responsible for the gentrification of the city), hipsters, and long time residents more interested in profit than preservation all have a stab at the heart of his true love, while all also punishing Ash for daring to stand up for what the city once represented. He takes a beating and with every wound he’s a little more “New Yorked”--a little more transformed by others’ plans for and designs upon him.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781940610405
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
06/09/2015
Publisher:
Polis Books
Series info:
Ash McKenna
Pages:
304
Height:
.90IN
Width:
5.40IN
Thickness:
1.00
Series Number:
1
Author:
Rob Hart
Author:
Rob Hart
Subject:
Suspense

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