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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
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Crime & mystery fiction

ROVERS

Richard Lange

From award-winning author Richard Lange, comes a hard-boiled thriller about two immortal brothers' journey across the American West in search of new victims and a better life.

Summer of 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, who has developmental delays, are on the road in search of victims. The brothers are rovers, nearly indestructible nocturnal beings who must consume human blood in order to survive. For seventy years they've lurked on the fringes of society, roaming from town to town, dingy motel to dingy motel, stalking the people they feed on.

This hard-boiled supernatural thriller kicks off when the brothers encounter a young woman who disrupts their grim routine, forcing Jesse to confront his past and plunging his present into deadly chaos as he finds himself scrambling to save her life. The story plays out through the eyes of the brothers, a grieving father searching for his son's murderer, and a violent gang of rover bikers, coming to a shattering conclusion in Las Vegas on the eve of America's bicentennial.

Gripping, vivid, and bloodthirsty, ROVERS demonstrates once again why Richard Lange is "a force of his own, the high standard for crime fiction" (Benjamin Percy).

Richard Lange is the author of the story collections Dead Boys and Sweet Nothing and the novels This Wicked World, The Smack, and Angel Baby. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the International Association of Crime Writers' Hammett Prize, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Book Published 2021-07-07 by Mulholland

Comments

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Rovers twists and turns like a whirlwind of desert dust. Richard Lange has created an energetic, entertaining, pulsing novel in Rovers, where things roam in the night and burn in the day and the path to salvation is a timeless, dangerous journey. A wild west, gothic thrill ride.

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A propulsive, harrowing and soulful tale of vengeance and redemption, love and loss, the undead and mortals. Rovers moves in the shadows and rips through the darkest hours on choppers and over open highways, in dive bars and deserts. The momentum of the story is undeniable, but the impulse to linger under the spell cast by Lange's gifts with language is powerful and to be savored.

Q&A with Richard Lange in Publishers Weekly about his first foray into the world of supernatural thrillers. To quote Lange, "The earliest thought I had about this story was that it would be Of Mice and Men with vampires." Our own Wallace Stroby calls it "a dark gem of a book. A vampire novel by way of John Steinbeck and Sam Peckinpah. Riveting and relentless" and Zoje Stage calls it "a dynamic and visceral page-turner."

Rovers is a dark gem of a book. A vampire novel by way of John Steinbeck and Sam Peckinpah. Riveting and relentless.

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The book has a lot going on, with as many settings as characters, propelled by the jet fuel of resentments, assassinations-for-hire, mistakes and love affairs. Lange balances it all perfectly... Lange's awareness of the needs of a reader are double-edged. He's delivered a swift, delicious novel that's firing on all cylinders.

Lange has done it again! Another tour de force! Another gripping page-turner! Shifting points-of-view, beautiful language, drama, action, fantasy, pathos - Rovers has it all! And it makes me feel greedy like a vampire (or a rover): I want and need another Richard Lange book right away! Well, I have to be patient and rational: I have his other books to reread and this one, too, which is an utter triumph and delight.

This outstanding supernatural noir from Hammett Prize winner Lange follows brothers Jesse and Edgar, both vampire-like creatures known as rovers, as they travel across the southwest, targeting transients, prostitutes, and addicts... Lange succeeds brilliantly at combining the vampire and noir traditions.

A lean, blistering tale shot through with heartbreak and sunlight. Rovers is magnificent horror.

Rovers is a gritty and vivid encounter with the creatures that haunt the underbelly of Americana. Lange utilizes his immense skill with prose and characters to create a dynamic and visceral page-turner. I devoured this book!

Reading Rovers was like going on a three-day bender: once I got started, I couldn't stop. Rovers is a bleak, gritty, violent, and mostly tender portrayal of life as an outsider that happens to be about vampires. The writing is equal to the story: achingly beautiful, by turns inspiring and devastating.

The gone world of the 1970s goes beautifully, terrifyingly and oh so satisfyingly bad in this new one by Richard Lange. Propulsive, intense, smart and stylish, Rovers is high-octane, full-throttle, keep-your-hands-off-that-lightswitch stuff.

Rovers is not your ordinary vampire novel. Richard Lange has written a gritty, dusty, dirty, and sweaty thriller that reeks of blood and fear. Rovers is a hardcore 1970s crime thriller - a bloody revenge story built on the brooding realization that even with eternal life and incredible healing power, existence and spirit are always fragile.