“Set somewhere in the American west, this clever thriller from Di Filippo boasts a sophisticated scam story line…Di Filippo, best known for his science fiction, proves equally adept at crime fiction. Fans of Ocean’s Eleven will find plenty to like.”

-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"This engrossing mix of revenge tale and caper novel has for a narrator a man straight out of the hard-boiled tradition....What sets this novel apart—besides the flowing writing and deadpan humor—is the writer’s sympathetic curiosity about his characters and the twist ending, which works a change on the old notion that con men are really best at conning each other."
— Don Crinklaw, Booklist

“Hot damn! Paul Di Filippo has long been one of our best science fiction writers, so when he turns his attention—and his humor—to the classic caper novel, prepare to bliss out. Dare I say that Raymond Chandler would envy some of Di Filippo’s similes and wisecracks? At the very least, fans of the late, great Donald E. Westlake should start telling their friends Right Now about The Big Get-Even.  In its pages storytelling artistry meets scam artistry and the lucky reader scores big.”

—Michael Dirda, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and author of the Edgar Award-winning On Conan Doyle

“This is an astonishingly accomplished, virtually seamless caper-suspense novel, a genre which the late Donald Westlake brought (in his Dortmunder novels) as close to perfection as any writer living or dead and which Paul Di Filippo has, in THE BIG GET-EVEN, made equally his own.  I have long written of Westlake (1933-2008) that he gave more pleasure per capita than any novelist living or dead and in mourning his loss I called him "irreplaceable" but here is Paul Di Filippo and here is this novel and they have shaken and inspired.  I hope there will be more of these and that I will be present for at least some.  

Having referenced the great Westlake, I should add Elmore Leonard's name: the dialogue here is as mordantly accurate, the characters as endearingly unscrupulous and intense, the situation limned with his utter clarity of madness.”

-Barry N. Malzberg 

“Once upon a time, Glen McClinton was part of the one percent of the one percent, until a drug habit and financial lies sent him to prison and humiliation. With no job, no friends, and no prospects, his future looks grim indeed, until a fellow con comes to him with a proposal to put him on top, and to “get even” along the way.  Paul Di Filippo expertly spins a tale of revenge, betrayal and a fight for salvation.”

—Brendan DuBois, bestselling mystery author, three-time Edgar Award nominee and James Patterson collaborator

"The Big Get-Even mixes the cocktail of classic noir with a style and panache utterly Paul Di Filippian. It blends a cast of sexy and larcenous guys and molls (and one pretty-boy rotten yegg), a wittily suspenseful buildup, and a gasp-provoking payoff into a highly palatable intoxicant. I drank it off straight in nearly one draught, and I commend it to you as a bracing tonic for the blues and the blahs, no chaser necessary." 

—Michael Bishop, author of Other Arms Reach Out to Me

"Compulsively readable and spiked with wry wit. You cheer the motley characters every step of the way to the H-bomb climax…Raymond Chandler would love this book."
-Rudy Rucker, Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of the Ware Tetralogy

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·       Author’s previous novel have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Sturgeon Award and World Fantasy Award.

·       Will appeal to fans of Donald Westlake (The John Dortmunder series) and Carl Hiassen (Razor Girl).