ADAM DAVIES

Mine All Mine, by Adam Davies

MINE ALL MINE

by Adam Davies

 

“If Raymond Chandler had a deranged sense of humor, if Nick Hornby dabbled in thrillers, if Philip K. Dick were not dead—they might have collaborated on a book
as strange and strangely wonderful as Mine All Mine.
A rollicking, rocking good read.”

- David Benioff, author of The 25th Hour and City of Thieves
 “A hilarious caper [that is] laugh-out-loud funny . . . a svelte page-turner.”
- Publishers Weekly

 

After his first two critically acclaimed novels, The Frog King (2002) and Goodbye Lemon (2006), earned him comparisons to Nick Hornby and Dave Eggers, with reviews calling his work “bitter, smart and soaked in dark humor” (Publishers Weekly), Adam Davies keeps the whip-smart stylings and veers into the seedy, salacious world of art theft in MINE ALL MINE (Riverhead Trade Paperback; August 5, 2008; $14.00). And he’ll be in your city soon to take you along for the ride.

Shot with all the stinging emotional truth we’ve come to expect from Davies, MINE ALL MINE holds a mirror to the recent glut of real-life museum heists, leaving us to wonder how these thieves keep fleeing with millions worth in art with such stupefying ease. Says our hero Otto Starks, a highly trained, very specialized security guard—a “pulse,” for short—no matter how acute your sense of smell, the bad guys’ll do that: slip by right under your nose.

The lately luckless Otto Starks, who once had a lot of promise as a pulse and was a rising star in the industry. But then Otto got rolled three times by the notorious Rat Burglar, an altruistic thief who boldly lifts looted works of art and returns them to their rightful owners. Now Otto’s been demoted. Now he’s dangerously in debt to a loan shark. Now the cops are eyeing him as a suspect. The only bright spot in his life is Charlie Izzo, the woman he loves. Unfortunately, she is also the Rat Burglar’s zealous advocate. When she mysteriously disappears and Otto becomes a fugitive, he realizes that the Rat Burglar has stolen much more from him than art. And to get it back he must break the law he has devoted his life to upholding.

Adam Davies, called “that rarity in book publishing; a true talent” by The Baltimore Sun, reinvigorated the urban romantic comedy with Goodbye Lemon and The Frog King—soon to be a major motion picture from GreeneStreet Films, with a script by Bret Easton Ellis. Now, in MINE ALL MINE, he has written a novel that is at once a neo-noir thriller and a quirky romantic comedy, a shocking expose of the exotic and dangerous underworld of looted artwork—after narcotics, the most lucrative black market on earth—and a nail-biting page-turner about deception, betrayal, and ownership—in art and in love.
 
I hope you will consider coverage of MINE ALL MINE—for review, feature, or to interview Adam Davies—to coincide with Adam’s upcoming visit, and I appreciate your consideration.