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PRAISE FOR MAÑANA

“A kick-ass thriller that moves through Mexico like a scalded sidewinder … Hjortsberg delivers wild surprises.”

—Carl Hiaasen

“While fun might not be the word normally used to describe a story with blood, smoking guns, knives, drugs, death, heartbreak—did I say blood?—you’re going to have to trust me on this one. A trip. William Hjortsberg does it again.”

—Michael Keaton, Golden Globe Award–winning actor

“Hjortsberg gives us a deft, deadly no-let-up narrative in edged prose, sharp as a stropped razor. This one cuts deep so brace yourself.”

—William F. Nolan, coauthor of Logan’s Run

“William Hjortsberg’s Mañana is a trip—one filled with suspense, blood, and laughs.”

—Jeff Bridges, Academy Award–winning actor

“Terrific writing. Wild characters. Dark humor. Can’t-stop reading. Brilliant … Bang-bang.”

—Peter Fonda, cowriter and star of Easy Rider

“Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Jack Kerouac, maybe a little Pynchon—that’s the lineage leading to William Hjortsberg and Mañana, his nifty tale of murder and young love amid the dark and wilted days of flower power.”

—David Quammen, author of Spillover

“In the tradition of Hemingway, Hammett and Chandler, Hjortsberg elevates the noir genre through his brilliant use of atmosphere, local color and crackling dialogue, giving us not only a roman noir page-turner but a polaroid-like portrait of the turbulent sixties—drugs, guns and sexually overloaded characters.”

—Bob Swaim, award-winning director of La Balance, Half Moon Street, and Masquerade

“Alternately hilarious and plain scary … [Hjortsberg’s] prose is finely wrought, his drama perfect.”

—Peter Bowen, author of Bitter Creek

“A novel of love and desperation … Told with a brilliant eye for telling detail, Mañana hustles a reader into an exotic world that turns belief upside down.”

—Richard S. Wheeler, Spur Award–winning author of The Fire Arrow

“A lot of people have been waiting a long time for this book. … Mañana shows that this writer is still at the height of his powers.”

—Peter Blauner, author of Slipping into Darkness and Slow Motion Riot

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Published in 2015 by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

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