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Hector Lassiter #10
Three Cords & the Truth: A Hector Lassiter novel
In 2007, the Hector Lassiter series launched with "Head Games", a literary thriller set along the borderlands of 1957 America—a road novel that 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 at last sets the capstone on the Hector Lassiter series and legend.
Winter, 1958: Nashville, Tennessee is locked in an icy snow storm doing nothing to cool racial tensions in Music City, USA, or points farther south. Following a midair collision, a U.S. military crew has been forced to dump a hydrogen bomb off the coast of South Carolina—a deadly device still there today, a weapon of mass destruction whose nuclear trigger may be rest rusting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, potentially still threatening the east coast well into the 21st Century.
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 saga BookPage has called “wildly inventive” and The Chicago Tribune calls “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.
Winter, 1958: Nashville, Tennessee is locked in an icy snow storm doing nothing to cool racial tensions in Music City, USA, or points farther south. Following a midair collision, a U.S. military crew has been forced to dump a hydrogen bomb off the coast of South Carolina—a deadly device still there today, a weapon of mass destruction whose nuclear trigger may be rest rusting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, potentially still threatening the east coast well into the 21st Century.
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 saga BookPage has called “wildly inventive” and The Chicago Tribune calls “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.
336 pages, Paperback
First published November 21, 2016
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About the author
Craig McDonald
68 books46 followersEdgar/Anthony-nominee Craig McDonald is an award-winning novelist, editor and journalist. His internationally acclaimed Hector Lassiter series includes "One True Sentence," "Forever's Just Pretend," "Toros & Torsos," "The Great Pretender," "Roll the Credits," "The Running Kind," "Print the Legend," "Three Chords & the Truth," "Write From Wrong," and "Head Games," which was a finalist for the Edgar, Anthony, Gumshoe and Crimespree Magazine awards for best first novel. It is being adapted as a graphic novel by First Second for release in 2015.
A standalone thriller about illegal immigration, "El Gavilan," was published in autumn 2011 to starred reviews and was also selected for several year's best lists.
A new series of direct-to-eBook thrillers featuring crime novelist Chris Lyon was launched in 2012; the series features crossovers by characters from the Hector Lassiter series; Hector himself appears in "Angels of Darkness."
A standalone thriller about illegal immigration, "El Gavilan," was published in autumn 2011 to starred reviews and was also selected for several year's best lists.
A new series of direct-to-eBook thrillers featuring crime novelist Chris Lyon was launched in 2012; the series features crossovers by characters from the Hector Lassiter series; Hector himself appears in "Angels of Darkness."
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January 16, 2018
Three Chords & The Truth is the last of the Hector Lassiter series by Craig McDonald. Lassiter 's age does not stop the writer from rising early each morning to put down a few words before breakfast.
Set in a Nashville winter in 1958. Though now, the crime writer is tying up life's lose ends. Lassiter's dark humor and cynic sensibilities keep him company even on this trip. In town to help a fellow writer and meet up with another very close friend, the story gets complicated with bomb- seeking KKK who wish to make the world crazier than it already is.
Readers do not have to have read each book in order in the series. However, for Three Chords & The Truth, it helps to have read a few others beforehand. The ending neatly ties up loose story threads. Fans will be sad to see Hector Lassiter go.
The books in this series are rough speaking and story telling. Though some of the stories are rougher than others; Three Chords & The Truth is a good read with no scary dreams.
Set in a Nashville winter in 1958. Though now, the crime writer is tying up life's lose ends. Lassiter's dark humor and cynic sensibilities keep him company even on this trip. In town to help a fellow writer and meet up with another very close friend, the story gets complicated with bomb- seeking KKK who wish to make the world crazier than it already is.
Readers do not have to have read each book in order in the series. However, for Three Chords & The Truth, it helps to have read a few others beforehand. The ending neatly ties up loose story threads. Fans will be sad to see Hector Lassiter go.
The books in this series are rough speaking and story telling. Though some of the stories are rougher than others; Three Chords & The Truth is a good read with no scary dreams.
April 17, 2017
The Best
The final book in the Hector Lassiter series is a complete knock out. It ties together strands from the earlier Lassiter novels, and as important this one has excitement, sex, history , meta, and is just plain fun-- read them all!
The final book in the Hector Lassiter series is a complete knock out. It ties together strands from the earlier Lassiter novels, and as important this one has excitement, sex, history , meta, and is just plain fun-- read them all!
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews