Lights Out

From the Anthony Award-winning author of The Follower comes a dark, electrifying psychological thriller.

What if your dreams don't come true?

Ryan Rossetti and Jake Thomas were once Major League-bound rivals on their high school baseball team-until Ryan blew out his pitching arm and lost everything. Now he's scraping by on ten dollars an hour as a Brooklyn house painter, while Jake has made it all the way to the pros.

Flush with a ten-million-dollar signing bonus, Jake returns home for a carefully staged publicity weekend. But the past isn't finished with him-or with Ryan.

Ryan is locked in an intense, addictive affair with Jake's fianc e, Christina, a woman torn between desperate love in a Brooklyn tenement and a hollow life of wealth on Easy Street. As old resentments resurface and loyalties fracture, none of the three understand what's about to unfold on the streets they once called home.

Lights Out is a raw, emotionally charged psychological thriller about obsession, jealousy, and ambition, told with the street-wise dialogue and relentless tension that have made Jason Starr one of crime fiction's most distinctive voices.

PRAISE FOR LIGHTS OUT

"Sizzles with street-wise dialogue and furious emotional energy."

- Library Journal

"Wickedly entertaining."

- Booklist

"A fast, furious page-turner from the git-go. Starr's got a hip style and an ear for crackling dialogue."

- Jeffery Deaver

"Jason Starr has the New York sound-energy, dialogue that's on the beat."

- Elmore Leonard