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8th August 2008

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New look for Mr Blue

30.04.08 Alison Flood

The backlist of career criminal turned movie star turned author Edward Bunker is being relaunched by independent crime fiction publisher No Exit Press, following the discovery after his death of a previously unpublished manuscript.

Bunker—who was once on the FBI’s most wanted list—appeared as Mr Blue in Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs”, and was also a screenwriter, receiving an Oscar nomination for “Runaway Train”.

He wrote several novels, including The Animal Factory and No Beast So Fierce, and after he died aged 71 in 2005, the manuscript of his first novel Stark was discovered. No Exit will publish Stark, the story of a conman, on 30th May (B-format p/b, £6.99), with a foreword by James Ellroy.

The publisher will simultaneously roll out a new look for Bunker’s backlist, including his autobiography Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade and the novels No Beast So Fierce, The Animal Factory, Little Boy Blue and Dog Eat Dog. The repackaged collection was created by book designer Olly Northway, who wanted “to reflect the powerful and uncompromising style of Bunker’s work”. No Exit is distributed by Turnaround.

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