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Description of Outsourced

Technology professionals turn their skills to criminality for the heist of a lifetime. Following on from his trilogy - "Small Crimes", "Pariah" and "Killer - is Outsourced", this is Zeltserman's most commercial book to date. A classic heist thriller pitched somewhere between "Ocean's Eleven" and "Dog Day Afternoon", it's the story of a group of software engineers who lose their jobs due to an industry push to outsourcing. Desperate, and seeing their middle class lives crumbling apart, they come up with a brilliant plan to use their computing skills to rob a bank. But not even a systems analyst can foresee every eventuality, so the group falls foul of the Russian Mafia. Movie rights have already been sold to "Outsourced". The film will be produced by, the team behind the hugely successful "Resident Evil" films.

Title Information

ISBN:

9781846687327

Pages:

256 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

469813

Publisher:

Serpent's Tail

Published:

29/07/2010

Press and Industry Reviews

'A white-knuckle ride... a cracking piece of hard-boiled noir... different kinds of venality are put wittily under the microscope as the book rattles along to its terrific conclusion' Metro Praise for Small Crimes * 'The plot of Small Crimes is a thing of beauty: spare but ingeniously twisted and imbued with a glossy coating of black humor. Zeltserman takes up all the familiar tropes of the formula -- femmes fatales, frighteningly dysfunctional families, self-destructive drives and the death grip of the past -- and shows how infinite are the combinations that can still be played on them.' Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post

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About Dave Zeltserman

David Zeltserman has over the years worked developing data communication software at some of the world's leading networking and computer companies, including Motorola, DEC, Nokia, Lucent and Cisco. He lives in the Boston area with his wife Judy, is a die-hard Patriots and Red Sox fan and when he's not writing crime fiction, he spends his time working on his black belt in Kung Fu. His previous novels, Small Crimes (9781852429713), Pariah (9781846686436) and Killer (9781846686443) are also published by Serpent's Tail.

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