SKYLIGHT BOOKS - McNally Robinson Booksellers

ZAGREB COWBOY
MATTICH, ALEN
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Yugoslavia, 1991. The State is crumbling, and in the midst of the political chaos secret policeman Marko della
Torre has been working both sides of the law -- but somewhere along the way he's crossed the line. When a
corrupt cop called Strumb? helps three hired Bosnian thugs to hunt him down and kill him, della Torre makes a
run for it through Croatia, Italy, and finally to London, where he'll take Strumbi? for all he's worth. A page-turning
thriller shot through with black humour and razor-sharp dialogue, Zagreb Cowboy is the spectacular debut novel
in a taut new crime fiction series.
MYSTERY
HOUSE OF ANANSI 384 PAGES
9781770891081
$19.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
ZOO
PATTERSON, JAMES
All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating
events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity
of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear. With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn
world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will
be no place left for humans to hide.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 800,000
LITTLE BROWN 416 PAGES
9780316097444
$29.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
LARGE PRINT EDITION
9780316224154 ($32.99)
ZOO TIME
JACOBSON, HOWARD
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly
strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters
than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence that destroys Guy's peace of mind,
suggesting the wildest stories but making it impossible for him to concentrate long enough to write any of them.
Not that anyone reads Guy anyway. Not that anyone is reading anything. Reading, Guy fears, is finished. His
publisher, fearing the same, has committed suicide. His agent, like all agents, is in hiding. Vanessa, in the
meantime, is writing a novel of her own. Guy doesn't expect her to finish it, or even start it, but he dreads the
consequences if she does. In flight from personal disappointment and universal despair, Guy wonders if it's time
to take his love for Poppy to another level. Fiction might be dead, but desire isn’t. And out of that desire he
imagines squeezing one more great book.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 25,000 IN CANADA
BLOOMSBURY 304 PAGES
9781608199389
$27.50 HC
OCTOBER 2012
Ph: 204-339-2093 Fax: 204-339-2094 Email: wendy@skylightbooks.ca 172