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Title: Tough Luck
Author: Jason Starr
Narrator: Christopher Ragland
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-25-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Winner: Barry Award for Best Paperback Original
Finalist: Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original
Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighbourhood seafood market in Brooklyn, putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year to help his sick dad. But Mickey's got a problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey to place bets for him, and Angelo keeps losing.
As Angelo gets further in the hole, his bad luck is turning out to be Mickey's, too. Now Mickey's got his bookie after him, and Angelo's showing him the butt of his pistol rather than paying him back. So when his best friend, Chris, asks Mickey to join him on a can't-lose caper, Mickey decides to go along. But surefire schemes often have a way of backfiring, and this one is sending Mickey into an uncharted part of Brooklyn, where fish like Chris and Mickey have trouble just staying alive.
Jason Starr, author of Cold Caller, Nothing Personal, Fake I.D., Hard Feelings and Tough Luck, was born in Brooklyn in 1966 and still lives in New York City. After completing a degree in economics at Binghampton University, Starr has concentrated on his classic noir crime fiction, which has been compared to the work of James Cain and Jim Thompson.
Critic Reviews:
"Jason Starrs got a hip style and an ear for crackling dialogue...characters so real we feel we know them." (Jeffery Deaver)
Starr once again shows a real gift for satiric humor and capturing the contemporary New York scene." (Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Want a look at unknown Brooklyn?
Never read anything by this guy before this, but I sure will now! Wow! A master of concise character development, Starr has put together one gem of a fast reading look at the life of a young man trapped in his life in Brooklyn. You can only hang on for the ride as Mickey Prada makes one poor decision after another and watches his life go down the toilet. A likable enough guy, Mickey is not too bright. His inability to size up the situations in which he finds himself leads to the destruction of the limited life he knows. Crisp clipped dialogue and scenes rife with local color and characters give this short novel a stunning vibrancy.
One of his finest outings. And man does he have an ear ...
Jason Starr knows New York City and he knows noir. One of his finest outings. And man does he have an ear for an ironic ending.
I enjoy all of his books
Jason Starr is a talented writer of dark fiction. I enjoy all of his books.
One Star
I didn't finish it
Hardboiled like it was yesterday...
Jason Starr has made a career writing novels like *Tough Luck.* They invariably tell the story of a relatively ordinary guy with some modest aspirations and a few flaws. The modest aspirations lead him into trouble and the few flaws end up magnified into grotesque proportions. One bad choice leads to another, and, to paraphrase Schopenhauer, ends with the worst of all possible choices. As a reader, you watch, helpless, and gruesomely fascinated, as the main character tries to do the equivalent of wiping away a speck of lint from a white suit with hands covered in red ink. It's a formula as old as Og the Caveman, but in the hands of a writer like Jason Starr it still works to perfection.
In *Tough Luck,* the ordinary guy is Mickey Prada--a 19-year-old working at a Brooklyn fish market. Mickey is going to college next fall.