Ken Bruen: Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (USA 2011)

From the Publisher:
The author of Blitz and the Jack Taylor novels delivers a "fast-paced, tough and explosive" tale of a killer couple (The Irish Times).
Cooper likes Ed McBain novels, action movies, and robbing banks. Released from prison, he's back on the outside, and in business with another former con. They call themselves "Righteous Repo." It's so legit they even have an accountant. It's decent work, but not as lucrative as the bank jobs they still pull on the side. Not as stimulating, either. But nothing gets Cooper's blood pumping faster than Cassie -- an easy, all-American beauty with a bent for metaphysics, Irish poets, and taking risks.

Cassie's also a professional shoplifter, slumming at a low-end South London shop when Cooper first lays eyes on her. After a single hookup comes the catch: Now that Cooper's had her, he's not allowed to touch another woman. He thinks she's quite a joker until he wakes up and finds Cassie's note. She drugged him, stole his pistol and his cash, and left him with another warning: She's not through with him. Not by a long shot. Only death will keep her away, so death it must be. Cooper and Cassie are made for each other.

From the award-winning author of the Jack Taylor novels, Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice delivers "pulp with an A level" (The Guardian), once again confirming Bruen as "the crime novelist to read" (George Pelacanos).

Ken Bruen: Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice. MysteriousPress.com /Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781453228265 (October, 2011), eBook, 2 MB (ca. 124 p.), $9.99.

Ken Bruen: Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (2005)

From the Publisher:
Her name was Cassie. She liked poetry. And guns. And money. She liked Cooper too and that was his bad luck.
Cooper had done his time for GBH. Now he was on the outside, he'd set up a legit business with Doc whom he'd met in prison. They called themselves 'Righteous Repo' and they even had an accountant. The Repo firm did good business but wasn't anywhere near as exhilarating as the bank jobs they did on the side.

Cooper gets more excitement than he bargained for when Cassie walks into his life. Bold, brash and ever so slightly barking she likes Cooper, and nothing and nobody is going to stand in the way of her getting what she wants.

Ken Bruen: Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice. Serpent's Tail, ISBN: 1852427825 (March, 2005), 124 p., £7.99.

Ken Bruen: Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice (1998)

From the Publisher:
Her name was Cassie. She liked poetry. And guns. And money. She liked Cooper. That was his bad luck. Cooper had it easy back then. For a bank-robber. Took it easy. But took it. He had a legit business too. A repo man. Even had an accountant. Cassie blew it all to hell.

Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice is the purest London noir, dark and dirty as the Thames by night. Just as with his acclaimed debut, Rilke on Black, Ken Bruen takes the reader on a one-way ride - straight to the bitter end.

Ken Bruen: Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice. Serpent's Tail, ISBN: 1852425857 (March, 1998), 124 p., £7.99, $14.00.