It’s been a while; sometimes these things take more time than
one wants.
The big news here is after a two year-hiatus, the next
installment in my Edgar/Anthony-nominated Hector Lassiter series, ROLL THE
CREDITS, will be released in trade paperback and eBook formats this autumn.
Cover concepts are being worked on now, but RTC should be
available for a fall read, just in time for the 70th anniversary of the
liberation of Paris, an event that figures prominently in my new novel.
Hector’s antagonist this round is a sinister German
filmmaker first glimpsed in the opening pages of the Paris-set ONE TRUE SENTENCE.
Hector narrates for the first time since HEAD GAMES, and many familiar faces
will return.
More to come quite soon, so stayed tuned, and check out my
official website where more will be posted in the days to come (including a
first-chapter sample). For now, here’s a tentative publisher’s teaser for
Hector Lassiter #5:
ROLL THE CREDITS
By Craig McDonald
Through four
critically and internationally acclaimed novels, Edgar®- and Anthony-nominated
author Craig McDonald has given readers startling glimpses of the secret
history of the 20th Century through the eyes of Hector Lassiter,
“the man who lives what he writes and writes what he lives.”
Roll the Credits at last reveals the crime
novelist/screenwriter’s storied adventures during World War II. The new Hector
Lassiter novel is a globetrotting and decades-spanning historical thriller
depicting a duel-to-the-death extending from decadent old Berlin to 1920s
Paris; from bombed-out London to 1950s’ Hollywood and a last, bloody siege in
the steaming jungles of Brazil.
Aided by a
beautiful OSS operative and a two-fisted Irish cop-turned-Army intelligence
officer, Hector takes on the impossible mission of smuggling a hard-hunted
Jewish orphan from France while pursued by the might of Germany’s occupying
army.
This is the
novel Hector Lassiter’s fans have been waiting for: Hector as guerilla leader
and OSS spy; as unlikely father figure, husband and avenging angel.
Roll the Credits is a thriller not only about Hector’s
war as fought through the bars, bedrooms and bloody countryside of France and
beyond, but also a chilling tale about the sinister origins of film noir and
post-war Hollywood.
Drawing on dark historical events and rich in atmosphere and
character, Roll the Credits will
thrill readers of the series BookPage
has called “wildly inventive” and The
Chicago Tribune calls “most unusual, and readable crime fiction to come
along in years.”
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