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Jack of Spades

Written by: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: his 28 mystery novels have sold millions of copies in nearly 30 countries, and he has a top agent and publisher in New York. He also has a loving wife, three grown children, and is a well-regarded philanthropist in his small New Jersey town. But Rush is hiding a dark secret. Under the pseudonym "Jack of Spades", he writes another string of novels - dark potboilers that are violent, lurid, even masochistic. These are novels that the refined, upstanding Andrew Rush wouldn't be seen reading, let alone writing. Until one day, his daughter comes across a Jack of Spades novel that he has carelessly left out and begins to ask questions. Meanwhile, Rush receives a court summons in the mail explaining that a local woman has accused him of plagiarizing her own self-published fiction. Rush's reputation, career, and family life all come under threat - and unbidden, in the back of his mind, the Jack of Spades starts thinking ever more evil thoughts.

©2015 Original Material by Joyce Carol Oates, c/o John Hawkins & Associates (P)2015 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

What the critics say

"Oates is simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I'm concerned." (Gillian Flynn)
"A writer of extraordinary strengths." ( The Guardian)
"If the phrase 'woman of letters' existed, Joyce Carol Oates would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it." (John Updike)

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