a hard-knuckled writer
- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
From the first page of this noir thriller, you know things are only going to get worse, but you can't stop reading
Newsweek
Jason Starr's Tough Luck [is] the kind of book you read with a wince, but you read it straight through because you can't put it down. Starr [is] a terrifically taut writer
The Baltimore Sun
Tough Luck, an enthralling character study, is perfect car-crash literature; spiritual sustenance for the "inner rubber-neck" in all of us
- Paul Kane, New Mystery Reader Magazine
Starr has total control of his plot, and he's so relentlessly clever that poor Mickey's life becomes a mesmerizing exercise in personal decline in which every piece smartly falls into place. An unsettling read, but hard to put down
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