<DIV><p>&ldquo;Levison is a sly storyteller . . . by turns funny, sad, and insightful.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Booklist</I><BR><BR>&ldquo;Plenty of humor in [Levison's] gruff caper, but he punctuates the laughs with just the right hint of sadness. . . . A lean crime story and a stark alternative to glossier capers.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Kirkus Reviews</I></p> <p><B>Praise for Iain Levison:</B></p> <p>&ldquo;Levison is the real deal . . . bracing, hilarious, and dead on.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The New York Times Book Review</I></p> <p>&ldquo;There is a naked, pitiless power in his work.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>USA Today</I></p> <p>&ldquo;Mr. Levison writes tight, punchy prose, with deadpan humor and a mixture of savvy about and sympathy for his fellow working stiffs.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>The Wall Street Journal</I></p> <p>&ldquo;Exciting, funny, poignant and sociologically important.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Chicago Tribune</I></p> <p>&ldquo;An amusingly bleak little (im)moral fable. . . . A gleeful satire.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Detroit Free Press</I></p> <p>&ldquo;Loaded with hilarious deadpan humor.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Dallas Morning News</I></p> <p>In a dying Pennsylvania coal town, three firends are looking for a way out. Mitch is a rebellious malcontent whose bad attitude gets him fired from a chain big box store. Doug can identify any pill by sight and any &lsquo;80s rock song by the first three notes but doesn&rsquo;t understand credit scores. Kevin got married and had a kid too soon and is now on parole after serving jail time for growing marijuana. The three of them dabble in petty crime and believe they have a talent for it. They start by stealing a high-definition TV, then set their sights on bigger scores. Soon things begin to get out of hand.</p> <p><B>Iain Levison</B> is the author of <I>A Working Stiff&rsquo;s Manifesto</I>, an account of his post-collegiate work experience, consisting of forty-two jobs in ten years, and of two previous novels, <I>Since the Layoffs</I> and <I>Dog Eats Dog</I>. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.</p></DIV>