Jason Starr\u2019s forthcoming science fiction thriller The Next Time I Die has been optioned by Executive Producer Gilbert Adler (Constantine, Valkyrie, Superman Returns).\u00a0 The highly anticipated novel, which is being published by Hard Case Crime later this month, will be the first ever science fiction thriller from Jason Starr, the two-time Anthony Award-winning crime novelist (Twisted City).<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce my team and I\u00a0 started reading, we couldn\u2019t stop,\u201d said Adler. \u201cWe usually can tell where a plot is heading, but this book has genuine surprises and twists you just don\u2019t see coming! Move over Harlan Coben, this sci-fi thriller will be the next \u2018big deal\u2019 on a streaming service.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Starr\u2019s mind-bending novel The Next Time I Die, New York defense attorney Steven Blitz is stabbed trying to break up a crime. He should have died on the spot. Instead, he wakes up the next morning, stuck in a new reality, one that is somewhere between Philip K. Dick and The Twilight Zone. There\u2019s a different president in the White House; a loving family when he\u2019d been on the verge of divorce; more money in the bank than he\u2019s ever seen. There\u2019s a dark side, though: in this world, Steven Blitz is not a good man. And now he\u2019s got to get himself out of serious trouble without even knowing what it is he\u2019s done wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cGil is one the best producers in the business,\u201d says Starr. \u201cWe have a similar vision for The Next Time I Die and I\u2019m thrilled to be working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ahead of publication, The Next Time I Die is already receiving major attention:<\/p>\n
“The Next Time I Die is a paranoid noir freakout playing its own one-of-a-kind game… and a shameless page-turner.” \u2014Joe Hill<\/p>\n
“Mind-bending, genre-blending…the story is dark, twisted, funny, frightening, and\u2014in a strange way\u2014uplifting.”\u2014Booklist<\/p>\n
\u201cSo fresh and clever and compelling. I don\u2019t know when I last turned pages so quickly.\u201d\u2014Ian Rankin<\/p>\n
\u201cAs in the best nightmarish noir, Starr ups the ante.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly<\/p>\n
\u201cI really don’t know how Jason Starr does it: I start out thinking I\u2019m only going to read a chapter of The Next Time I Die and an hour later I’m on page eighty.\u201d\u2014Bret Easton Ellis<\/p>\n
\u201cBeautifully and perfectly crafted. Halfway between Christopher Nolan’s Memento and a story by Philip K. Dick.\u201d\u2014Matteo Strukul<\/p>\n
“With The Next Time I Die, Jason Starr has taken a next level leap… It’s like Philip K. Dick is still with us and has just written a new, brain-frying work of New York noir.”\u2014 Brian Greene, Criminal Element<\/p>\n
THE NEXT TIME I DIE will be published on June 28, 2022 by Hard Case Crime, the award-winning publisher Hard Case Crime renowned for publishing some of the biggest names in the history of mystery and crime fiction, including Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, James M. Cain, Erle Stanley Gardner, David Goodis, Stephen King, Ed McBain, Mickey Spillane, Donald E. Westlake, and Cornell Woolrich.<\/p>\n
For more details follow Hard Case Crime on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a> and follow Jason Starr on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jason Starr\u2019s forthcoming science fiction thriller The Next Time I Die has been optioned by Executive Producer Gilbert Adler (Constantine, Valkyrie, Superman Returns).\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,32,16],"tags":[1755,1753,1754],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/TheNextTimeIDieCover.jpeg?fit=313%2C500","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22960,"url":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/14\/hard-hitting-crime-thriller-stringer-set-to-hit-shelves-in-april-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":22849,"position":0},"title":"HARD-HITTING CRIME THRILLER STRINGER SET TO HIT SHELVES IN APRIL 2023","author":"DiRT","date":"October 14, 2022","format":"image","excerpt":"Fan-favorite writer Patrick Kindlon (Antioch, Frontiersman) and\u00a0artist Paul Tucker (Tet, Nobody is in Control) team up for a hard-hitting crime thriller in the upcoming\u00a0Stringer. 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