The Stone Angels - vendido!

by Stuart Archer Cohen

Orion, December 15, 2003 (part of the special "New Blood" promotion)
Paperback - July 1, 2004
regal_literary inc.


Foreign rights sold:
** Brasil (Record) **
France (Pygmalion),
Holland (Karakter Uitgevers),
Russia (Azbooka),
Thailand (Pearl).

Film rights: Optioned to Tom Cruise’s production company, Cruise/Wagner, with Robert Towne ("Chinatown") to write and direct attached and Al Pacino set to star, the project is on the fast track at Paramount for late 2005.


Detective Miguel Fortunato of the Buenos Aires Police Department is nearing the end of a quiet and respectable career—respectable being a relative term in Argentina—when his boss assigns him to investigate the murder of an American writer. Fortunato knows that he’s been assigned the job only to placate the American authorities (in particular Dr. Athena Fowler, the aggressive young woman sent to aid the investigation from Washington) and that his real task is to make sure the true killer is never found -- something he is sure of because he himself had been ordered by his boss to take care of the American. A gripping read that author George Pelecanos calls “morally complex, intelligent, and exciting.”
“It’s a powerful, disquieting novel, and Fortunato is a memorable character, an essentially good man gradually torn apart by conflicting emotions,” said The London Telegraph. The Sydney Morning Herald: “Alaskan Stuart Archer Cohen sets his excellent noir novel involving police corruption in Buenos Aires and pulls off his perceptive and dark story wonderfully.” The New Zealand Herald echoes: “A graceful, mesmerizing, witty tango of a crime novel.” “Cohen has a real ear for the cadences of street Spanish, and an eye for the fabulous and the grotesque,” writes The Guardian. “From the staggeringly sleazy Fabian, to the casually sadistic Domingo, from profoundly unpleasant to pure chilling evil, each character inhabits their world convincingly…It’s a stylish, glamorous novel from a talented, perceptive writer. If you like accomplished, intelligent, and sexy thrillers, this is a perfect read.”

Quotes:
‘It’s a powerful, disquieting novel and Fortunato is a memorable character, an essentially good man gradually torn apart by conflicting emotions.
Susanna Jager
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

’It’s a stylish, glamorous novel from a talented and perceptive writer. If your taste is for the noirish, then there’s huge satisfaction in the brooding malevolence and careless fatalism of the characters, as well as the slendidly treacherous city itself. If you like accomplished, intelligent and sexy thrillers, this is the perfect read.’
LOWESTOFT JOURNAL

’Part thriller, pert insight into the under belly of Buenos Aires ... [a] dark and moody thriller.’
IRISH EXAMINER