BREEDERS
a Crime Novel
by Barney Rostaing

Forthcoming 3/25/2011


6” x 9” Trade Paper
353 pages
$16.95 USD
ISBN: 978-887276-51-1
LCCN: 2010931112

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When tough, self made, construction mogul and thoroughbred owner Pat McGoohey hires the smooth, talented, mahogany-skinned Len Thomas as his trainer, he breaks with long standing protocol taking Len across the color line into a rapidly accelerating adventure of crime, romance, racing and race.

America is a country in which the complexity of the truth runs so contradictory to clichés that it can always seem revolutionary just by being itself. What Barney Rostaing has achieved here is something so free of clichés about minorities, women, and privileged men that we are continually startled by his authority and insight. In the process, he almost reinvents the heist tale as a commentary on contemporary life as it is actually lived.
— STANLEY CROUCH, author and columnist


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Barney Rostaing grew up in Connecticut, where his early thinking was formed by leftist parents, free jazz and the sixties. He has taught at two universities, worked in Army intelligence, and was an editor at The Soho Weekly News.

As a sport writer he exposed the 1984 U.S. Olympic blood doping scandal in Sports Illustrated and travelled Europe extensively. Later he worked with Uma Thurman in Kiss Daddy Goodnight and won an AFI first place award for a sports video.

After a decade in financial software, he saved enough to return to writing with Breeders. Previous books include Phantom of the Paradise (Dell), and The Bill Walton Book of Bicycling (Bantam).