Las Vegas Writes

Restless City Published!

November 4, 2009
RESTLESS CITY is published!

RESTLESS CITY is available at www.RestlessCity.com and will be available on Amazon and in local bookstores shortly. Both a print and eBook formats are being published. The book will debut at the Vegas Valley Book Festival with a reading by final author Vu Tran on Saturday, November 7 at 4:00 PM at the Historic Fifth Street School (on Fourth Street). Authors will be available to sign books.

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Restless City — Chapter 6

October 22, 2009

Brady cleared his throat, wondering who else was in on this scheme, or had been. Creamer? Fat Andy Sachman? Joseph Don Walker? Samuels, obviously, even though it had been just a hunch. This was way more than fake bills or fixed decks at a poker table. This was real money.

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Restless City — Chapter 5

October 2, 2009

Brady went to his closet and quickly picked up his surveillance bag, which held electronics equipment he used in his P.I. job, and hurried back out the door. In the covered parking area, he started the root beer-colored ’85 Eldorado, its interior reeking of cigarettes and the fine dust of neglect and fading memories.

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Restless City — Chapter 4

September 17, 2009

Of all the possible permutations and combinations, of the thousands of escape plans or suicide attempts or motion picture moves that could have released him from this horrible, fatal, impossible situation, the last one he expected was this…

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Restless City — Signature Project of the Vegas Valley Book Festival

September 7, 2009

Seven local authors are collaborating to write a serial novel, Restless City, from June to October 2009, with each author writing one chapter to be released in sequence every three weeks. Chapter 1 is now available on the book festival’s website where H. Lee Barnes sets the stage with a gritty cast of Las Vegas […]

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Restless City — Chapter 3

August 14, 2009

A smart man would have taken the money, holed up in a four-star hotel on a tropical beach, rented a girlfriend for the week. A smart man would have options. Brady just continued to push the car south toward Laughlin. Outside, the scenery rushed past in a mind-numbing blur of desert sameness. Shrub, rock, hill. Shrub, rock, hill. Bad animation come to life.

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Vegas Valley Book Festival Launches ‘Las Vegas Writes’

August 4, 2009

The Vegas Valley Book Festival, set for Nov. 4–8, 2009, has launched a new signature event, “Las Vegas Writes,” a collaborative serial novel that is being written by seven local authors — H. Lee Barnes, John Irsfeld, Brian Rouff, Leah Bailly, John L. Smith, Constance Ford and Vu Tran.

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Restless City — Chapter 2

August 4, 2009

“Coincidence?” said Detective Brittain. “Down at Metro, we concluded that the answer to that was ‘No.’ We concluded that while it is true that blood is thicker than water, semen is thicker than blood. We concluded that you either knew something about this sad matter, or planned to know something about it, one.”

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Restless City — Chapter 1

August 4, 2009

“Ilene Georgia Davies, nothing but work applications. She’s currently a dealer at Red Rock Station. Lives in the southwest off Russell Road, one of those half-sold developments.” Lillian took a sip from her drink and winked at Brady. “Daniel Brady. And why couldn’t you be fifteen years younger?”

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Las Vegas Writes: Restless City

August 4, 2009

Restless City Read Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 and 6 on line now! A Signature Initiative of the Vegas Valley Book Festival Seven local authors collaborate to write a serial novel, from May to October 2009, with each author writing one chapter — released every three weeks over a six-month period, […]

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