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Editors’ Pick: GAIJIN COWGIRL by Jame DiBiasio

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aa90ff7e2bf33d5f4f5331b65084b737Jame DiBiasio moved to Hong Kong from New York in 1997. He is an award-winning financial journalist and editor. Gaijin Cowgirl is his first novel.

 

 

 

 

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Working Tokyo nightclubs is easy money for beautiful and troubled American Val Benson – until a wealthy client with a dark past reluctantly gives up a map to a stash of Japanese war loot and tempts his favorite girl into a dangerous treasure hunt. But the Congressman’s daughter is not the only one interested in the map: Yakuza, crooked cops, human traffickers, rogue CIA agents and her father are hot on her trail, snapping at her high heels.

So begins the dark, epic journey of a new anti-hero of Asian Noir, a protagonist both ambiguous and courageous, and utterly unreliable. From comfort women and tomb-raiding in Japanese-occupied Burma to the murderous echoes of the Vietnam War, long forgotten crimes come roaring back to life, as Val leaves a trail of destruction and chaos in her wake.

Together with her best friend, the equally unreliable nightclub hostess Suki, a British kickboxer and a washed up Australian treasure hunter, Val travels through Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok to the Thai-Burmese borderlands for a dramatic showdown with her pursuers. Finding the treasure before someone less deserving does is her only hope for survival, and perhaps redemption.

Gaijin Cowgirl by American writer Jame DiBiasio is a breathless page turner with a beautiful, dangerous heroine to match.

Click here for a free preview on Amazon…

Noir Nation launches VEGAS WAS HER NAME by Jonathan Sturak

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Noir Nation is pleased to announce the release of Jonathan Sturak’s novel Vegas Was Her Name. Sturak grew up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. A Penn State University graduate with degrees in Computer Science and Film, he currently lives in Las Vegas, where he uses the energy of the city to craft stories about life and the human condition.

“The Place Called Home,” Sturak’s essay about Eastern European heritage in Northeast PA, was featured on Glass Cases, associate literary agent Sarah LaPolla’s pop culture blog at glasscasesblog.blogspot.com. He is also a Noir Nation contributing editor. His debut thriller novel Clouded Rainbow was published in December 2009 and has over 100,000 downloads on the Amazon Kindle. More information about him is available on his website at sturak.com.

Vegas Was Her Name concerns Michael Harris, CEO of an engineering company. At the world’s largest technology convention in Las Vegas, Harris debuts Venus, a humanized computer brain that can predict human behavior. He attracts international attention, including the attention of Rachel, a steamy seducer who cons Michael by concealing a secret of her own. Melissa, Michael’s wife, flies to Las Vegas to save her husband and her marriage as the events unfold in the shadows of the Las Vegas Strip.

A real potboiler! Available now on Amazon.

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Got busted? 50 terms you need to survive in prison

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OK. You got busted robbing a police station thinking it was a Salvation Army donation center. As you wake in a holding pen with tattooed tagbangers calling you “Honey” and “Sweet Cheeks,” you think of the slow ways you will kill the dealer who sold you high grade snow which you snorted, licked, and injected hungrily into a vein in your neck, which you had confused with your arm. Only it was not snow you ingested. It was roach powder. And so of course gun-waving cops looked a lot like bell-ringing Salvationists.

As you are being handed your first prison uniform, you hear inmates talking in what seems like a foreign language. Prison lingo. To survive, you need to learn it fast.

Fortunately, you are a loyal reader of Noir Nation. We are hear to help.

Here are the first ten expressions you need to know:

1. All Day: A life sentence, as in “I’m doin’ all day.”

2. All Day and a Night: Life without parole.

3. Back door parole: To die in prison.

4. Beef: 1. A criminal charge, as in “I caught a burglary beef in Philly.” 2. A problem with another convict, as in “I have a beef with that guy in Block D.”

5. Brake fluid: Psychiatric meds.

6. Bug: A prison staff member considered untrustworthy or unreliable.

7. Bug juice: Intoxicants or depressant drugs.

8. Buck Rogers Time: (early to mid 20th century) A parole or release date so far away that it’s difficult to imagine.

9. Bum Beef: A false accusation/charge or wrongful conviction.

10. Cadillac: An inmate’s bunk. Also, Cadillac Job, an easy or enjoyable inmate work assignment.

For the full list of 50 essential terms to survive prison, click here.

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