Dying for Dana

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The return of Max Travis, the ace prosecutor who doesn't fare so well outside a courtroom. Rave reviews pretty much across the board, ones I would have been too embarrassed to write for myself. I had moved to Washington, D.C., where I met the hotshot crime novelist George Pelecanos; he'd never heard of me but read my work and became a fan. His blurb on the front cover of Dying for Dana wasn't the typical blurb-upon-request, it was lifted from a letter he'd written to his Little, Brown editor Michael Pietsch, encouraging Pietsch to sign me up: "Patton's got the classic moves of the great genre stylists and the effortless cool of an Elmore Leonard." 

Dying for Dana (Tom Doherty Associates, 2002): "In the three years since his ace debut, The Shake, Patton has sharpened his already considerable thriller skills. His second crime novel is an outrageously sad, mordantly hilarious story of love gone wrong..."---Publishers Weekly (starred review ⭐️ ⭐️  ⭐️)

"It's safe to say you haven't read anything quite like Jim Patton's latest thriller, because there hasn't been anything quite like it in decades. If comparisons have to be made, the closest stories would be those of George Pelecanos and Dennis Lehane."---Rocky Mountain News