Friday, 10 January 2014

Stan, now that Chris has spoiled the whole terrorism thing for you I can share the cover of the American edition:


This is not at all what happens in the novel, but then 67° N – at which the Mountie meets his maker – isn't exactly "the top of the world" either.

NWT Tourism should really promote those mountains.

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  1. Chris10 January 2014 at 21:17

    That's a great cover. I wish he was dressed as a Mountie and she was more native peoples, but wow. My cover would be a bunch of white middle aged guys in a room, watching one white guy return some calls. But the one with the explosion works too.

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  2. Chris Kelly11 January 2014 at 16:37

    I can't stop looking at this cover. Makes me wonder something I wondered when I was a kid: If the people who make paperback covers and movie posters know what's cool, why don't they tell the people who write books and make movies? I mean, if you know a handsome man and a beautiful woman running away from a gorgeous explosion touches hearts, why use it to trick people into buying a book about parliament debating plastic pipe? "Fuckers" Larry P would say. This is why I always hated reading.

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  3. Chris Kelly11 January 2014 at 16:39

    "An explosion at the top of the world..." It's so fucking good. A genius created it... a mad man stole it... a Federal agent is dead and the director of the French Connection is back on the streets... where justice falls like BLACK RAIN.

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  4. Chris Kelly11 January 2014 at 16:41

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiLxRBSEiBY

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  5. Brian Busby11 January 2014 at 16:45

    It's all good, but why not take advantage of the Mountie uniform? Or is the publisher trying to make it seem like everything takes place in Alaska… which is the top of the world to a lot of Americans.

    Hey, at least they have mountains.

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