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- "An author to watch" according to Booklist, The Game (from Kunati Books, ISBN 9781601640017) launched to starred reviews and buzz from the major trades. The first print run of this "sexy and promising" thriller (Publishers Weekly) sold out. "Injects the trope with new vigor...Armstrong keeps us chuckling" wrote Booklist. "Darkly humorous thriller" wrote Library Journal.
LOGLINE The Game slays reality television. In this darkly humorous thriller, reality television becomes too real when a killer with a message preys on the contestants of America's number one TV show.
REVIEW SNIPPETS
"A series to watch...Armstrong injects the trope with new vigor."
Booklist
"Dark tongue-in-cheek thriller"
Library Journal
"...suspenseful and rich with dark humor..."
Foreword Reviews
"Hugely cinematic thriller with hilarious dark comic moments."
Films and Books Magazine
"Promising premise...gory resolution."
Publishers Weekly
"A super sleuth...a grisly gamester...a multiplicity of games..."TRAILER.gif
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SYNOPSIS
In The Game, a killer plays a high-stakes game on the set of a live-broadcast reality television show where guests are trapped for six months in a “haunted” mansion. Thousands of miles away, a psychopath is executed by lethal injection in California–and dies with a secret that could save many lives. Only a comical detective who fears nothing--except his teenage daughters--can hope to understand what links these two seemingly unrelated crimes, without ever losing his zest for the game or his sense of humor.
The spree could be the work of a separatist group in Vermont who seek independence from the United States; or ruthless reality television producers juicing ratings on their hit show; perhaps the killers are vengeance-seeking parents; or are they underworld enforcers? In the world of The Game, the actual killer might be the least dangerous of all.
Don't miss the zany, thrilling world of The Game.
US$ 24.95
FIC031000 FICTION/Thriller
Pages 352
ISBN-13: 978-1-60164-001-7
ISBN-10: 1601640013
EAN: 9781601640017
LCCN 2006930183
Spring 2007
Kunati Cloth Hardcover
Distributed by Independent Publishers Group (IPG)
My third book, THE LAST TROUBADOUR, releases Fall 07 to strong advance reviews and quotes from two best selling authors.
LOGLINE
Against the flames of a rising medieval Inquisition—a heretic, an atheist and a pagan are the last hope to save the Holiest Christian relic from a sainted King and crusading pope—based on true events.
SYNOPSIS
Armstrong brings his "genre-bending" skills to the thirteenth century, quilling a laugh-out-loud historical thriller that is at once genuine, amusing, tragic and exciting. The last living troubadour, condemned by the church as a heretic, must rescue the Holiest Christian relic from a crusading Sainted King and "flaming" Pope Innocence. With him are a disgraced Templar and a luscious Temptress. Together, the Troubadour, the Templar and the Temptress—a heretic, athiest and pagan—are the last hope to save the Holy of Holies from powerful men who would exploit it to provoke a new crusade to Jerusalem.
Armstrong somehow retains his trademark "prose style that keeps us chuckling" (Booklist) while pointing his satirical wit at a Church that believes the answer to faith is to burn any who do not believe. With larger-than-life characters that manage not to become caricatures, Armstrong sets his heroes against the Diableteur, a witch hunter who resembles the archetypal "Death and his sickle", a lecherous archbishop who believes the relic can make him the next Pope, and a Pope who knows the true nature of the relic will destroy the Church. With Ramon Troubadour and his Templar/Temptress duo are an eclectic cast of characters—the one-eyed "black" knight who falls in love with the virgin Holy Lady, a Novgorodian wandering sorceress, and famous rebels, Doré the Dandy and Osric the Hammer. Oh, not to forget little Mauri, a "rat-like" mongrel of a dog who often "saves the day", and Izzy and Wizi, two "nearly human" horses.
If you enjoy your thrills and history—crusading knights, romantic-but-funny troubadours, fighting damsels, evil archbishops and roasting "heretics" on the pyre—mixed with a generous dollop of humor, large dashes of historical tragedy, and a big splash of satire, you'll adore The Last Troubadour, a genre-bend if there ever was one.
ISBN-13: 978-1-60164-010-9
ISBN-10: 1-60164-010-2
Fall 2007
384 pages
US$ 24.95
Kunati Cloth Hardcover
Distributed by Independent Publishers Group (IPG)
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Review Snips, The Last Troubadour—
• "Brilliance...genuinely innovative... an author of abundant talent." Booklist
• "Recommended for all." Library Journal
• "A work of art." Aeclectic
• "The tarot-themed characters are inspired. An author to watch." F&B
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Red Evans, author of On Ice, Passed Away.
Our dear friend and Kunati Author Red Evans passed away. We will miss him. His humor and words live on in his wonderful novel ON ICE.
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"An adventure for spiritual grownups that educates as much as it delights." Lon Milo Duquette, Bestselling Author
If I didn't know better, I'd say that Derek Armstrong wrote his novel, The Last Troubadour – Song of Montségur, purely for my own amusement and pleasure. With wit, wisdom (and more than an occasional wink) he has written a novel that panders to nearly every one of my cultural, spiritual, and historical prejudices. Set in thirteen century France – that hotbed heroes, heroines, and heresy – it's a wide-screen Technicolor adventure worthy of a ful… Continue
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Three Derek Armstrong Titles Releasing as Part of Kunati's Hot 2008!
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