Coming in January 2018 from Down & Out Books: LIFE DURING WARTIME AND OTHER STORIES by Thomas Pluck

TAMPA, Fla. - Oct. 26, 2017 - PRLog -- Down & Out Books is pleased to announce that LIFE DURING WARTIME AND OTHER STORIES by Thomas Pluck will be published on January 29, 2018 in trade paperback and ebook formats.

About LIFE DURING WARTIME AND OTHER STORIES …

A blackjack 21 of stories of people caught up in crime, facing bleak horrors, or spun in the whirlpool of human absurdity, this collects the best stories of Thomas Pluck.

Take a ride on the neuter scooter in "The Big Snip", selected as one of the best crime stories of 2016. Follow a mountain man who's not what he seems into a snowbound frontier town where evil has sunk its claws. Dine at the most exclusive restaurant in New York, where "Eat the Rich" takes on a whole new meaning. And meet Denny the Dent, a hulking 350 pounds of muscle who wouldn't harm a fly…but who'll glad crush a bully's skull. And read the Jay Desmarteaux yarn that takes off where Bad Boy Boogie ends.

Read the stories readers call "hard-hitting bombs" full of "gut punches and belly laughs"…and be ready to get Plucked.

Praise for Thomas Pluck:

"Thomas Pluck is a crime writer to watch. Steeped in the genre's grand tradition but with heart and bravado all his own, his writing is lean, smart and irresistibly compelling." —Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me and Queenpin

"He writes those quick, hard-hitting bombs as well or better than anybody on the scene today. Keep 'em coming." —Wayne Dundee, author of the Joe Hannibal PI series and creator of Hardboiled Magazine

"If you don't know who Thomas Pluck is, you will soon enough. His short fiction is all over the internet and he combines jabs of clever humor with full-impact gut shots." —Johnny Shaw, author of Dove Season and Big Maria

Meet the author …

Thomas Pluck has slung hash, worked on the docks, trained in martial arts in Japan, and even swept the Guggenheim museum (but not as part of a clever heist). He hails from Nutley, New Jersey, home to criminal masterminds Martha Stewart and Richard Blake, but has so far evaded capture. He is the author of Bad Boy Boogie, his first Jay Desmarteaux crime thriller, and Blade of Dishonor, an action adventure which BookPeople called "the Raiders of the Lost Ark of pulp paperbacks."

Celebrating six years as an independent publisher of award-winning literary and crime fiction, Down & Out Books (https://downandoutbooks.com) is based in Tampa, Florida. For more information about the book, to request a review copy of the book, or to inquire about an interview with the author, contact lance@downandoutbooks.com.