Charles Willeford: Burnt Orange Heresy (USA 2020)

From the Publisher:
The classic neo-noir novel acclaimed as Willeford’s best, soon to be a major film
Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything -- blackmail, burglary, and beyond -- to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living -- and most reclusive -- artist, the critic must decide how far he will go to become the art-world celebrity he hungers to be. Will Figueras stop at the opportunity to skim some cream for himself or push beyond morality’s limits to a bigger payoff?

Crossing the art world with the underworld, Willeford creates a novel of dark hue and high aesthetic polish. The Burnt Orange Heresy -- the 1970s crime classic now back in print -- has lost none of its savage delights as it re-creates the making of a murderer, calmly and with exquisite tension, while satirizing the workings of the art world as the ultimate con.

Charles Willeford: Burnt Orange Heresy. The Overlook Press, ISBN: 9781419740459 (March, 2020), 176 p., $16.00, eBook $13.49.

Charles Willeford: Burnt Orange Heresy (UK 2014)

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'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard
Art critic James Figueras is a psychotic, an amoral unrepentant killer. Out to make a lasting name for himself, he seeks out the greatest painter in the world, now a hermit in the Florida swamplands. Figueras is after more than the man, however - he wants the work, and something more... something more horrible than can be imagined.

Charles Willeford: Burnt Orange Heresy. With a Foreword by Lawrence Block. The Murder Room, ISBN: 9781471914386 (August, 2014), 1042 KB (ca. 192 p.), £1.99.

Charles Willeford: Burnt Orange Heresy (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
Charles Willeford's witty thriller and satirical take on jeopardy in the world -- and underworld -- of art.
The Burnt Orange Heresy
From extortion and blackmail to burglary and murder, Jacques Figueras, a fast-talking, back-stabbing self-made art critic with more charm than scruples, will go to any lengths to further his flashy career. And he does, in this neo-noir novel, when he accepts the commission of a wealthy American art collector to interview a famous but elusive French painter in sunny Florida -- and, more nefariously, to thieve his latest work of art.

Charles Willeford: Burnt Orange Heresy. Carroll & Graf, ISBN: 0786706686 (January, 2000), 192 p., $5.95.