The Pack

Manhattan receives a lustrous varnish of black,  black humor in this sly urban fantasy thriller...Starr once again shows  a real gift for satiric humor and capturing the contemporary New York  scene

Jason Starr was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He is the award-winning author of a number of acclaimed crime novels which have been international bestsellers. He now lives in Manhattan and is currently writing The Craving, the sequel to The Pack. Find out more at jasonstarr.com.

Let the hunt begin . . . 
 
When Simon Burns is fired from his job without warning, he takes on the role of stay-at-home dad for his three-year-old son. But his reluctance pushes his already strained marriage to the limit. In the nestled playgrounds of the Upper West Side, Simon harbors a simmering rage at his boss's betrayal. 
 
Things take a turn when he meets a tight-knit trio of dads at the playground. They are different from other men Simon has met, stronger and more confident, more at ease with the darker side of life- and soon Simon is lured into their mix. But after a guys' night out gets frighteningly out of hand, Simon feels himself sliding into a new nightmarish reality. 
 
As he experiences disturbing changes in his body and his perceptions, he starts to suspect that when the guys welcomed him to their "pack", they were talking about much more than male bonding . . .

Jason Starr

Jason Starr is hypnotically good - if you miss him, you're missing some of the best new writing there is

Jason Starr's got a hip style and an ear for crackling dialogue . . . with characters so real we feel we know them

Manhattan receives a lustrous varnish of black, black humour in this sly urban fantasy thriller

Once you're part of the pack, there's no getting out . . . 
 
Mild-mannered stay-at-home dad Simon Burns has undergone a life changing transformation - after being indoctrinated into the pack, he has become a werewolf. Fearing that the truth would end his marriage, Simon has told his wife Alison that he is suffering from a psychological condition called lycanthropic disorder, in which a person thinks he is a werewolf. For the moment, his secret remains safe. 
 
But NYPD homicide detective Geri Rodriguez has not forgotten about the mysterious wolf-like murders that remain unsolved,and when she hears that one of the witnesses, Diane Coles, was brutally murdered outside her parents' home in Michigan, she resumes her investigation. She's focused on a group of dads - Michael, Charlie, Ramon, and Simon -- who had a connection to the unsolved murders. 
 
Simon had been trying to stay away from the pack, but he has been tipped off by Michael's father that there may be a cure hidden somewhere in the Brooklyn brewery where Michael lives. He wants to find the cure, and to see that Geri doesn't become another mystery death - but his own life and the lives of his wife and son may be in jeopardy.

Jason Starr

Praise for The Craving

Jason Starr is hypnotically good - if you miss him, you're missing some of the best new writing there is

Jason Starr's got a hip style and an ear for crackling dialogue . . . with characters so real we feel we know them

Manhattan receives a lustrous varnish of black, black humour in this sly urban fantasy thriller

Jason Starr is hypnotically good - if you miss him, you're missing some of the best new writing there is

Jason Starr's got a hip style and an ear for crackling dialogue . . . with characters so real we feel we know them

Manhattan receives a lustrous varnish of black, black humour in this sly urban fantasy thriller

Jason Starr is hypnotically good - if you miss him, you're missing some of the best new writing there is

Jason Starr's got a hip style and an ear for crackling dialogue . . . with characters so real we feel we know them

Manhattan receives a lustrous varnish of black, black humour in this sly urban fantasy thriller

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