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Dark
Carnival specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and mystery books! We
have a huge selection, a knowledgeable staff and plenty of random
plastic stuff to round out your bookstore experience!
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Thursday May 27, 5:30 pm
THOMAS PERRY
Meet the Author
Thomas Perry won an Edgar Award for his first novel, BUTCHER’S BOY, and has since written many more, including the hugely popular Jane Whitefield series. His new book is STRIP:
An aging but formidable strip club owner, Claudiu “Manco” Kapak, has been robbed by a masked gunman as he placed his cash receipts in a bank’s night-deposit box. Enraged, he sends his half-dozen security men out to find a suspect who is spending lots of cash and is new enough to Los Angeles not to know he was robbing a gangster.
Their search leads them to Joe Carver, an innocent but hardly defenseless newcomer who evades capture and sets out to make Kapak wish he’d chosen someone else. Meanwhile, the real culprit, Jefferson Davis Falkins, and his new girlfriend Carrie seem to believe they’ve found a whole new profession: robbing Manco Kapak.
Lieutenant Nick Slosser, the police detective in charge of the puzzling and increasingly violent case, has his own troubles, including worries about how he’s going to afford to send the oldest child of each of his two bigamous marriages to college without making their mothers suspicious.
As this odd series of difficulties explodes into a triple killing, Carver finds himself in the middle of a brewing gang war over Kapak’s little empire, while Falkins and Carrie journey into territory more strange and violent than either had imagined.
"Perry is the master, and Strip is a slice of pure crime nirvana. You will not want to put it down. You will not want it to end. You will be very, very entertained." —Josh Bazell, author of Beat the Reaper
Thomas Perry was born in Tonawanda, New York in 1947. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Rochester in 1974. He has worked as a park maintenance man, factory laborer, commercial fisherman, university administrator and teacher, and a writer and producer of prime time network television shows. He is the author of fourteen novels. He lives in Southern California with his wife and two daughters.
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Dark Carnival Bookstore is located at 3086 Claremont Ave, at the
Uplands traffic light. (It is half-way between SAFEWAY at College
and Claremont, and the CLAREMONT HOTEL at Ashby and Claremont.)
DARK CARNIVAL IMAGINATIVE FICTION BOOKSTORE
3086 Claremont Ave.
Berkeley CA, 94705
510-654-7323
www.darkcarnival.com