Straight Cut

DEATH FOLLOWED HIM ACROSS THE OCEAN

A freelance film editor, Tracy Bateman goes where the work is. So when his old partner calls with an assignment, Tracy finds himself on a plane to Rome. But there are surprises waiting for him--deadly surprises that will lead him on a desperate chase across Europe, into the hands of a pair of brutal drug smugglers, and back to New York City, where the greatest betrayal of all awaits...

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction including the acclaimed trilogy about the Haitian Revolution All Souls Rising, Master of the Crossroads, and The Stone the Builder Refused. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize and an instructor for the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop.