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“Literary thrillers just don’t come any better than Ron Currie’s The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. It’s profoundly serious and terrifying in equal measure.” –Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Somebody's Fool A mythic, propulsive novel about the tangled fates of a...

In einem heruntergekommenen Viertel namens »Little Canada« herrscht Babs Dionne – Großmutter, Franko-Amerikanerin, Drogenbaronin. Mit eiserner Hand und einem großen Herzen kontrolliert sie den Rauschgifthandel der Region, zusammen mit ihren trinkfesten Jugendfreundinnen, die ihr Tag und Nacht zur Seite stehen. Als ihre jüngste Tochter Sis spurlos verschwindet und alle vermuten, dass ihr etwas angetan wurde, beginnt für Babs ein gnadenloser Rachefeldzug. Doch Babs muss sich nicht nur mit allen Mitteln gegen äußere Feinde wehren, sie kämpft auch gegen den Zerfall ihrer eigenen Familie.

"We Will See You Bleed is a thriller in the best sense. You can’t put the damn thing down, and the story of these down-and-outs fighting the powers that be will stay with you a long time. Solid-gold guarantee." —Stephen King It's late summer 1984, and Babs Dionne’s hometown of Waterville...

The electrifying, "cutting-edge" (USA Today) debut work of fiction from Ron Currie, author of the forethcoming novel The One-Eyed Man (March 2017) Ron Currie’s gutsy, funny book is instantly gripping: If God takes human form and dies, what would become of life as we know it? Effortlessly...

In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises...

In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke. The protagonist of Ron Currie, Jr.’s new novel has a problem­ - or rather, several of them. He’s a writer whose latest book was destroyed in a fire. He’s mourning the death of his father, and has been in love with the same woman since grade school, a woman whose beauty and allure is matched only by her talent for eluding him. Worst of all, he’s not even his own man, but rather an amalgam of fact and fiction from Ron Currie’s own life.