This one has everything, from a car chase that makes what Steve McQueen does with that Mustang in Bullitt seem like a Sunday drive, to a showdown in a Russian bathhouse that is part Marx Brothers and part Kill Bill . For anyone with a taste for blood-spattered comic capers featuring characters who vault off the page, Against the Law is an exquisite fever dream in Technicolor.--Booklist STARRED REVIEW Gordon is fashioning himself an impressive crime world niche somewhere between Donald Westlake and Elmore Leonard, with his raucous, rollicking stories of New York City crime . Come for the intricate, surprising crime scenarios; stay for the banter.--CrimeReads Everyone involved is heavily armed, ruthless, and possessed of an irresistibly off-kilter sense of humor.--Kirkus Reviews Gordon''s sentences are crisp and often jarring. His plots unspool in strange, sometimes disturbing ways . enjoy the disorientation and to trust that you''re in the hands of an earnest storyteller.

--Paris Review, on White Tiger on Snow Mountain Gordon has a knack for twisty story lines, nonstop action, and over-the-top sequences.--Publishers Weekly David Gordon brings an outstanding new voice to the contemporary crime novel.--Robert Crais Audacious--Publishers Weekly A brilliantly goofy caper novel in the grand tradition of Donald E. Westlake.--The New York Times Book Review on The Bouncer If you like a liberal dose of humor in your suspense fiction, then look no further than David Gordon''s clever new caper.The Bouncer has ''film adaptation'' written all over it.--Bookpage on The Bouncer The Bouncer feels like the introduction to a series.loaded with interesting, quirky characters who are just different enough from those one usually encounters in a crime novel to shoulder its way to the top of your reading list.

Gordon has garnered critical acclaim for his previously published fiction but deserves more notice in the public eye. This may be the book that provides that impetus. And somebody in the video industry needs to read it as well.--Bookreporter, on The Bouncer Fast, funny and tough, David Gordon''s The Bouncer will toss you over his shoulder like King Kong and carry you away.--Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition David Gordon''s The Bouncer is a treat?a hard-edged thriller that makes you feel good while you''re reading it. Give it to someone. They''ll thank you.--Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author of The Bomb Maker Funny, with a satirical edge, and unlike some literary authors who play with genre, Gordon knows how to write a potboiler .

An impressive debut.--Los Angeles Times, on The Serialist An irreverent and funny twist on the classic whodunit?the kind of pulp-fiction mystery that made the careers of such writers as Jim Thompson, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiell Hammett.--GQ.com, on The Serialist I have rarely come across a writer in such command of the English language. His sentences, characterizations and set pieces are things of beauty.--Washington Independent Review of Books, on Mystery Girl David Gordon has gathered up our cultural trash and made of it something magnificent. In the tradition of Bolano, Chandler, and lots of dime novels that most of us pretend to know nothing about, The Serialist makes high art out of serial murders, pornography, soup dumplings and pulp fiction. I adore this book!--Rivka Galchen, on The Serialist David Gordon has written a passionate love story disguised as a mystery, a brainy tragicomedy, a bildungsroman wherein ''the gumshoe learns the shocking secret of himself.

'' His prose is by turns salacious, uproarious, and happily unhinged. A total delight.--Karen Russell, on Mystery Girl Part mystery, part love story, wholly delightful.--Bustle, on Mystery Girl Feels like a return to some of the best American crime fiction of the 60s, 70s and 80s. The emphasis is on entertainment in a way that I think the likes of Donald Westlake would approve of.--Crime Fiction Lover.