Tom Kakonis
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Tom Kakonis has been hailed by critics nationwide as the heir-apparent to Elmore Leonard… and for good reason. His stunning thrillers blend dark humor with gritty storytelling for compelling, and innovative crime noir capers packed with unique, sharply drawn characters and shocking twists. All of those talents are on full display in Treasure Coast, his bold new thriller from Brash Books. But that success is built on a foundation of incredible crime writing. In his highly-praised debut Michigan Roll, Kakonis introduced Tim Waverly – a loveable gambler who constantly finds himself playing a game of survival against the odds. The Waverly series continued with Double Down and Shadow Counter, and Kakonis also penned the hilarious and harrowing Christmas car heist Criss Cross. Kakonis took a darker turn with Blind Spot and Flawless, two mind-blowing thrillers he initially wrote under the pseudonym “Adam Barrow.” Blind Spot is a tour-de-force that tracks a father’s relentless, driving obsession to save his family at any cost, while Flawless, picked as a People Magazine Chiller of the Week, centers on a ch
Tom Kakonis
Master of Crime Fiction
Tom Kakonis, who passed away in , was often compared to Elmore Leonard… and for good reason. His stunning thrillers blend dark humor with gritty storytelling for compelling, and innovative crime noir capers packed with unique, sharply drawn characters and shocking twists. All of those talents are on full display in Treasure Coast, his final novel, published for the first time anywhere by Brash Books.
But that success was built on a foundation of incredible crime writing. In his highly-praised debut Michigan Roll, Kakonis introduced Tim Waverly – a loveable gambler who constantly finds himself playing a game of survival against the odds. The Waverly series continued with Double Down and Shadow Counter, and Kakonis also penned the hilarious and harrowing Christmas car heist Criss Cross.
Kakonis took a darker turn with Blind Spot and Flawless, two mind-blowing thrillers he initially wrote under the pseudonym “Adam Barrow.” Blind Spot is a tour-de-force that tracks a father’s relentless, driving obsession to save his family at any cost, while Flawless, picked as a People Magazine Chiller of the Week, centers on a chilling
I&#;ve just learned the sad news that author Tom Kakonis has passed away. I first met Tom at the Bouchercon in Seattle. I was a big fan of his work and was delighted when he invited me to sit and chat with him&#;and I was thrilled when he later blurbed my book MY GUN HAS BULLETS. It meant a lot to me that a writer I admired as much as Tom would endorse my work.
Two decades later, when author Joel Goldman and I launched Brash Books, I called Tom about publishing his out-of-print backlist. Not only did he say yes, but he surprised me by offering us an unpublished manuscript that had been sitting in his drawer for years. His dark-comic thriller TREASURE COAST was the first original novel that we released, so as long as Brash Books is in business, he will be an integral part of who we are as publishers, what we stand for, and what we aspire to achieve.
Tom was a great writer who didn&#;t get the recognition or wide readership that he deserved. I wish I&#;d been able to change that. Do yourself a favor and read MICHIGAN ROLL, his first and most acclaimed novel&#; I guarantee you&#;ll be hooked by this man&#;s talent and humor. He was a hell of a storyteller.
Rediscovered: Tom Kakonis
On the tour Sunday various people asked me at various times as we hiked along whether or not Pinkerton&#;s was still around &#; couldn&#;t say for sure, but something easy to Google up and resolve. Not that any of us bothered at the time.
But it reminded me that it seems that I haven&#;t noticed a Pinkerton&#;s armored car in a year, two years, which at the end got a few of us talking about armored cars.
Which led to me doing a plug for the movie Palookaville, one of my favorites &#; it&#;s got an armored car caper in it. Plus there&#;s the classic Armored Car Robbery (sampled in Palookaville), and the more recent Armored &#; a whole little sub-genre.
And of course I mentioned the Tom Kakonis novel Criss Cross, a novel no fan of armored car capers should miss. As I said in a tour brochure back in ,Criss Cross is more or less the Kakonis version of The Maltese Falcon, a modern hardboiled masterpiece.
That micro-essay on Kakonis and the ultra-hardboiled just got reprinted on July 18 on the Brash Books website, part of the promo effort to bring the Kakonis backlist into print. Hey, anything I can do to help out.
I&#;m digging into an a
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