Players

Where the heck did Clay Reynolds come from? This is one wild high-octane rush of Texas black comedy, betrayal and bloodshed. Tarrantino meets McMurtry. They'll never cram all this headlong action into a feature-length movie, and if they did it would fry you brainless. Read the book.

With PLAYERS, Reynolds once again demonstrates his technical competence and his overall mastery at narrating a complex tale. PLAYERS is a real page-turner. With an almost Dickensian ability to include many, many characters in a plot which though complex never results in a plot-ridden novel, Reynolds blends dark humor with chilling realism in an account of losers in the underworld of crime. Although the principal setting is Texas, there are abundant allusions and references to other parts of the country. PLAYERS please readers of a) tough mystery fiction, and b) all readers who find vastly complex plots fascinating. With PLAYERS Reynolds augments his reputation as a skilled narrator whose vision illluminates much of the human condition

Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put put it down. The action was fast, the characters were well-defined, but their motivations and instinctive actions changed with the violence around them. Hard to tell until the end who were the players, or who had to play along just to survive.

Reynolds has found his genre in crime thrillers. A hard-hitting fast-paced novel of the Texas underworld and secret government intrigue, "Players" exploits the best elements of the roman noir. Dark humor vies with explosive and often surprising action to bring disparate characters together in a rapidly developing plot of murder, kidnapping, and underworld thuggery. A story of instinct, survival and the desperation that comes when there's no way out but violence. "Players" brings forth a full range of human emotions. A MUST READ.