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"Thought-provoking and dramatic, this collection of short noir stories tugs at heartstrings and pummels thoughts, ensuring an entirely memorable read."
Available in paperback from Head Shot Press.
Available in Kindle from Amazon.
A provocative collection of short noir stories, meet tales filled with grief, longing, ageing, regret, and of course violence and death, tales that slash through niceties and plunge you into the reality of life. Whenever I pick up a book by Maxim Jakubowski I always know my emotions are going to be tested and provoked. This collection feels like a very personal love story to noir. The tales have a sharp poignancy, whether secretly slicing a hidden space in thoughts waiting to catch you unaware, or getting hold of your feelings and giving them a good hard shake. My imagination took flight as the words wrapped themselves around me. I loved the tributes to J.G. Ballard, while Cornelia has to be a favourite, oh, and you may just find yourself meeting the author along the way too. By the end I found myself pondering, thoughtful, as though I was waiting for something just out of reach. Death has a Thousand Faces allows you to step off a springboard into a darkly poignant freefall, I just had to raise a glass to Maxim and choose it as a Liz Pick of the Month.
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Available in paperback from Head Shot Press.
Available in Kindle from Amazon.
Nineteen Stories of Sex and Death
From New Orleans to London to the Caribbean, within this new collection of short literary crime stories Maxim Jakubowski draws on his past to explore twinned themes of the erotic and the murderous. Interlocking sequences forge a sense of skewed biography, his characters intent on undermining happiness, pursuing detrimental goals that they are powerless to resist. These are quintessential noir tales underpinned with unassailable sexual power.
“I'd always been a glass half-empty sort of person, luxuriating in a sense of doom and familiar to defeat, whether it was in matters of the heart or seeing my books quickly take the direction of remainder bins. Which is why I was so taken by the criminal poets of despair, the empty streets and deceitful women of Cornell Woolrich and his customary downbeat endings in which I somehow found a sense of beauty.”
Death Has A Thousand Faces features in the following genres: Shorter Reads, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Crime and Mystery, Erotic Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller and Suspense, Fiction: special features, Fiction, Recommendations
Death Has A Thousand Faces is available in Paperback, Ebook
Death Has A Thousand Faces was written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Head Shot Press
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