title: Killer Year: Stories to Die For...From the Hottest New Crime Writers
author: Lee Child
description: For this impressive crime anthology, bestseller Child (One Shot) has gathered 13 stories by newcomers and three by veterans. Such established writers as David Morrell, James Rollins, Gayle Lynds, Ken Bruen and Allison Brennan introduce tales by such rising stars as Marcus Sakey, Brett Battles, Robert Gregory Browne, Sean Chercover and Gregg Olsen. Some selections, like Olsen's The Crime of My Life, hit like a hard swung sap. Battles's Perfect Gentleman is more like a knife that slides in easily, then twists in the gut. Browne's Bottom Deal features a PI that would be at home in a lineup with Spade and Marlowe. Sakey's Gravity and Need lets the reader bleed out slowly, while Chercover's One Serving of Bad Luck earns a rueful smile. Not every entry is a winner, but the disturbingly good new talent showcased in this volume bodes well for the future of the genre. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Worth Dying For is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product
  of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or
  dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  Copyright © 2010 by Lee Child
  Excerpt from Night School copyright © 2016 by Lee Child
  All rights reserved.
  Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing
  Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
  DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a
  trademark of Random House, Inc.
  Title page art from an original photograph by Kinsey R. Christin
  This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming title Night School by Lee Child. This excerpt has
  been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.
  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
  Child, Lee.
  Worth dying for : a Reacher novel / Lee Child.
  p. cm