Hall of Fame Author Matt Hughes unleashes a Gripping New Thriller Featuring a Rogue Army Ranger
One More Kill is a suspense novel that grew out of a short story that won the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for best crime story of the year.
The book is now available in print and eBook format in North America
He was a trained killer, an orphaned kid who rose from raw recruit to the rank of major in the US Army Rangers. He was looking forward to retiring at the end of a thirty-year hitch, but when he developed a low-grade form of leukemia, the Army pushed him out and left him feeling alone and useless until a fluke encounter with a rogue doctor tipped him into a new hobby: killing those who had done great harm and gotten away with it.
But then a police detective started to dig into his operations, while a vicious old enemy resurfaced with a scheme to draw the Ranger into a web of contract killing and gun running. Pushed too far, the Ranger will solve his problems with bombs, bullets, and his own bare hands. Based on a short story that won the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence.
Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H9W572Q2
Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/One-More-Kill-Vigilante-Assassination/dp/1927880564
Praise for Matt Hughes:
“Fans of Lawrence Block’s Keller stories are going to love ONE MORE KILL. I certainly did. Matt Hughes kept me up all night, turning pages” — George R.R. Martin
“Intriguing plot twists drive this page-turner from Hughes . . . does a masterly job of making a cold-blooded killer sympathetic.” Publishers Weekly
George R.R. Martin and the late Gardner Dozois
selected Hughes’s fiction for several acclaimed anthologies, including the celebrated Jack Vance tribute Songs of the Dying Earth. On two occasions, Dozois turned to Hughes to provide stories on short notice when other invited contributors were unable to deliver
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About Matt:
Matt Hughes is a Canadian author, he writes crime fiction, fantasy, and space opera. He has sold 24 novels topublishers large and small in the US, Canada, UK, France, and Italy, as well as more than 100 works of shortfiction to professional markets.
His magnum opus is What the Wind Brings, a historical novel with magical realism elements. It was the first Canadian work to win the international Endeavour Award. He waited more than forty years to write the novel, and spent a year composing several drafts, made possible by a $25,000 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.
His short fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Blue Murder, Pulp Literature, Storyteller, Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Postscripts, Interzone, Amazing, Unfit, and several anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois and George R.R. Martin, including the bestseller, Rogues.
He has won the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award, the Endeavour Award, and the Global Book Award in the dark fantasy category. His works have been short-listed for the Aurora, Locus, Nebula, Philip K Dick, A.E. Van Vogt, Neffy, Alberta Book Publishing, High Plains, and Endeavour Awards.
Many of his speculative fiction works are crime stories in a science-fiction or fantasy setting. He has called himself, “a crime writer trapped in a speculative fiction author’s career.”
In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association’s Hall of Fame.
His Wikipedia page has more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Hughes_(writer)
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