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Format:	Paperback	Author:	--
Subject:	Literary Fiction	Series:	--
	--	Special Attributes:	1st Edition
Publication Year:	2009	Language:	English
Condition:	New

THE HUNCH by SEYMOUR SHUBIN - featuring an introduction by Dave Zeltserman

[Brand New - First Edition - First copies available online!]

"The Hunch is a masterpiece of economy and suspense as well as being Kafkaesque in its dissection of human guilt. But it's also a masterpiece because it has something very rare -- a beating heart. And in the end, that's what makes it not just a crime novel, but a great novel."
--- Mark SaFranko (author of Hating Olivia and Loners)

Seymour Shubin, author of New York Times' Bestselling Anyone's My Name and Edgar Special Award Winning The Captain, returns with a new crime novel.

The Hunch tells the story of Jon Hendricks: a loving husband and father leading a contented life... until a knife carves it all apart. His wife not only has an affair, but murders the man after he threatens to reveal the truth. Can Jon hide the murder from the police and from his friends? And will his conscience allow him to protect the woman he loves?

Seymour Shubin's novel -- like so many of his books -- explores the nature of desperation. As with Anyone's My Name and Witness to Myself, Shubin gives us characters racked with varying forms of guilt, and sees whether humanity can survive the pressure of the truth pounding in the characters' heads. While clearly appealing to Shubin's current fans of pacy and page-turning psychological crime novels, The Hunch's study of guilt has also been compared to literary writers Franz Kafka (The Trial) and Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment).

As Dave Zeltserman (Small Crimes, Pariah) states in his introduction: "The Hunch is a book that will haunt you."

PRAISE FOR SEYMOUR SHUBIN:

"Shubin’s style is crisp, never, never dull. With inexorable drive... he carries his story through to its grim and shocking conclusion. He is a storyteller with a terrific punch."
--- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Shubin has an enviable knack as a novelist, the ability to combine a philosophical plot with some of the finest action writing you’ll run across in American literature."
--- Oklahoma City Oklahoman

""When a first-class novelist equipped to the full with narrative and descriptive power, turns his attention to the plain, unvarnished presentation of a murder...the result can well be almost terrifying."
--- Liverpool Daily Press

You think you can put the book down and go do something else ... but then soon you're back wondering what is happening to these people... Stephen King does that too, if you've ever noticed -- but King does it in a flashier way. Shubin is simply an excellent writer, and somehow every single time he creates a novel that leaves me thinking about it for days afterward, wondering 'How, exactly, does he DO that?'"
--- Dianne Day (Author of Obsidian and Death Train To Boston)

PRAISE FOR THE HUNCH:

"In the typical crime noir universe, killers are crazies and down and out losers, fringe players who know they're doomed... Not so with Seymour. His killers are us. Seriously, they're people who could be our best friends, co-workers, even our spouses, maybe even ourselves... These are people with something to live for and who have so much to lose. And of course, it doesn't hurt that Seymour fills his books with genuine emotion and small human touches... as well as keen psychological insights.
"The Hunch is... Gripping, haunting [because] the anguish and trauma that this couple go through are genuine and heartfelt. The husband feels betrayed by his wife, as well as feeling hatred and repulsion, but is also terrified for her... As the noose tightens, the journey this couple goes through is devastating."
--- Dave Zeltserman (From the introduction to The Hunch)

IBSN 0955131588
194 pages
Trade paperback size (as Black Sparrow Press)
Stunning cover art by Richard Watts

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