High Adventure

YOU ARE IN THE JUNGLES of Belize. You pick your way carefully along the overgrown trail until you come to the clearing. There, above you, rest the ruins of a Mayan pyramid. Is that a stone whistle at your feet? An idol of the bat-god? Riches surround you and Kirby Galway will be more to happy to smuggle your finds to the United States in a bale of marijuana. Aren't you glad you met Kirby?

If you are Innocent St. Michael, wily Belizan bureaucrat, you're not. After all, you sold Kirby the worthless land and know that there are no treasures — not to mention pyramids — on it.If you are Lemuel the curator, you're not. After all, these artifacts should be protected — by you, and in your own way. If you are St. Michael's assistant Vernon, you're not. After all, you are involved in a plot to overthrow the government and all the visitors Kirby is brining in are making your job more difficult.

Perhaps you are one of the two homosexual antique dealers with a secret to keep hidden, or maybe you are Valerie — loved, kidnapped, ordered to be executed and otherwise getting in the way. If you are, meeting Kirby didn't do anything for your disposition, either

Now it is your turn to meet Kirby Galway and begin the most hilarious adventure of your life.

Now available from Mystery Vault, publisher of mysteries: out-of-print classics and contemporary.

A Jade in Aries

This was the fourth novel I wrote about Mitch Tobin, using the pen name Tucker Coe. I didn't yet know it, but it was also next to the last novel in that series.

I have lived long enough to get over my astonishment at how much society and culture can change in a lifetime. The subculture in A JADE IN ARIES has been criminalized for nearly a hundred years, and there was no reason to expect it to change anytime soon. Coincidentially, at the same time I was writing A JADE IN ARIES, the Stonewall uprising took place in Greenwich Village in June of 1969, changing everything. For the better.

Click here to read about all the Tucker Coe novels.

The Hot Rock

Thirty-one years ago, John Dortmunder was born. It was, believe me, a dark and stormy night, and none of us expected him to make it. But he's still here — see, please see, BAD NEWS — and in honor of this tenth novel-size fandango, his birth pains are being exposed again, in the first book of the series, THE HOT ROCK, in trade paperback this time, as you see, a very nice cover.

Bad News

"When's the last time you read a book that made you laugh on every page? If there's a more wryly convoluted mind out there than Westlake's, it has yet to show itself, and it does make the five-year wait between John Dortmunder's lunatic capers (What's the Worst That Could Happen?, 1996, etc.) seem excruciating long."

Kirkus Review
February 2001

Murder Among Children

second in the series
about ex-cop Mitch Tobin.

Flashfire

a brand new Parker novel
— Parker goes to Palm Beach.

Kinds of Love,
Kinds of Death

the first Mitch Tobin novel
— back in print for the first time
in 30 years.

A Good Story

short story collection, now in paperback.

The Hook

This is the same HOOK that had that interesting hardcover cover last year — you know, the stack of copies of THE HOOK — so this year, in paperback, that has been replaced, you'll be astonished to note, by a picture of a hook. But a golden hook; snag onto it.