Back when HEAD GAMES was inching toward publication, this novel was conceived and written as the definitive series closer.
(I had this notion, and left myself wiggle room, to expand the series in the middle if it seemed reasonable to do that...the results were THE GREAT PRETENDER and last year's DEATH IN THE FACE.)
THREE CHORDS takes place one calendar year after HEAD GAMES. Like HG, Hector once again narrates, Bud Fiske returns as primary sidekick, and some surprising faces from HG also return.
Information about pre-orders will be forthcoming. In the meantime, here's a brief publisher's teaser:
THREE CHORDS & THE TRUTH
In
2007, the Hector Lassiter series launched with Head Games, a literary thriller set along the borderlands of 1957
America—an audacious road novel met with ecstatic reviews and international
awards attention, including Edgar and Anthony nominations for Best First Novel
by an American Author.
With
Three Chords & The Truth, Craig
McDonald sets the capstone on the Hector Lassiter saga.
It’s
winter, 1958. Johnny Cash and Sun Studios are ascendant in Tennessee, where a
wicked snowstorm is doing nothing to cool racial tensions in Music City, USA,
or points farther south.
Despite
the cold, the U.S. military is also sweating, fearing the worst after a flight
crew has been forced to dump a hydrogen bomb off the coast of South Carolina—a
weapon of mass destruction whose nuclear trigger has been left to rust at the
bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, threatening the Carolinas with atomic
annihilation.
Once
again, forgotten history and historical figures are reanimated and given new
life and relevance through the Hector Lassiter series, nothing less than a
literary Secret History of 20th Century America.
In
an up-from-the-heels voice that recalls his first-person narration of Head Games,
Hector once again tells his own remarkable story, one that rounds out the
internationally bestselling series BookPage
has called “wildly inventive” and The
Chicago Tribune declared “most unusual, and readable crime fiction to come
along in years.”
This
is a vintage Lassiter novel, at last revealing the ultimate fate of the
author-screenwriter famous for living what he wrote, and writing about what he
lived.
&
DEATH IN THE FACE
NOW AVAILABLE here
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