Mack Is in for “Pain”

A week ago, we announced that publisher William Morrow had provided us with one free copy of California writer Jerry Stahl’s fourth and latest novel, Pain Killers, to give away. We asked readers to submit the answer to a very simple question: “In which other of Stahl’s novels did ex-junkie turned codeine-popping detective Manny Rupert also appear?” And we promised to randomly draw a winner from those entries.

Well, today we have the name of that winner. He’s Mack Lundy of Williamsburg, Virginia, who knew that Rupert had previously been featured in Stahl’s rather violent but darkly comic, 2001 crime-caper novel, Plainclothes Naked. A copy of Pain Killers should be in the mail to Lundy shortly.

Thanks to everyone for taking part in this contest. We hope to have another book to give away soon.