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Tagged "Mad Dog Coll" after killing five-year-old Michael Vengelli in a botched assassination attempt, Coll was the subject of a shoot-to-kill order issued by New York City Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney, a $50,000 bounty offered by Dutch Shultz and Owen Madden, and $30,000 in reward money from by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and the city's newspapers.

When Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer living on Cape Cod, awakes with a gruesome hangover, a painful tattoo on his upper arm, and a severed female head in his marijuana stash, he has almost no memory of the night before. As he reconstructs the missing hours, Madden runs afoul of retired prizefighters, sex addicts, mediums, former cons, a world-weary ex-girlfriend, and his own father, old now but still a Herculean figure.

Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a new collection of corkscrewed tales from the author of Great Apes. The Guardian (London) describes Will Self as "a wayward genius", and you can find out why when you observe the author's pitiless dissection of the foibles of men, women, and the Volvo 760 Turbo.

Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean's reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States. Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale is a snapshot of the political, racial, and sexual undercurrents roiling contemporary life, and each finds a way into the nerves and blood that pulse beneath the question of how to live a decent life.

Emilio Reyna es periodista y poeta. Su mujer acaba de abandonarlo y él lleva tres meses en Laguna Fría, un pueblo perdido en medio del Chaco. Reyna sigue el rastro de dos integrantes de una Fundación ambientalista a quienes se ha tragado la tierra. En Laguna Fría casi no hay agua y el clima es insoportable. Allí, Reyna conocerá al intendente Ibáñez, a su hijo Bebo (poeta "coo" y amante de las chacareras) y a un trío de policías enamorados entre sí.

Hace días que en el Abrevadero de Margot, donde se reúnen los chuchos del barrio, nada se sabe de Teo y de Boris el Guapo. Sus colegas presienten que detrás de su desaparición hay algo oscuro, siniestro, que los mantiene alerta. Lo ocurrido no puede ser nada bueno; lo sospechan todos y lo sabe su amigo el Negro, luchador retirado con cicatrices en el hocico y en la memoria. Para él es cuestión de instinto, de experiencia sobreviviendo en las situaciones más difíciles. Eso lo lleva a emprender un peligroso viaje al pasado, en busca de sus amigos.