Matthew McBride is a former assembly-line worker living in rural Missouri. In his words, “These people are the people I know and see every day, and this is the world I know.” He is also the author of the cult hit Frank Sinatra in a Blender.
“Matthew McBride’s new novel, A Swollen Red Sun, is rough and
ready suspense, encompassing a wide array of characters from the
sour side of life, and smashing them together with vigorous and
blunt prose.” - Daniel Woodrell, author of The Maid’s
Version and Winter’s Bone
“The words practically vibrate off the page in Matthew McBride’s
amped-up and intricately plotted novel about meth freaks and dirty
cops, A Swollen Red Sun. Filled with scenes of both tremendous
brutality and heartrending compassion, it is the best fictional
depiction of the current drug epidemic raging across the Midwest
that I have ever read.” - Donald Ray Pollock, author
of Knockemstiff and The Devil All the Time
“A Swollen Red Sun, simply put, is an epic piece of modern crime
fiction. But within that, McBride never loses his sense of powerful
intimacy with the characters, their lives, their families, and
their demons.” - Todd Robinson, author of The Hard Bounce and
editor of Thuglit
“Memorable, unique, and at times, even haunting. Every character
rings true from the feckless to the noble to the downright
frightening. . . . [With] dark country humor, A Swollen Red Sun is
a must read.” - Johnny Shaw, Anthony Award–winning author of Big
Maria and Plaster City
“Matthew McBride is one of those rare writers who can have you
reeling in shock one minute, and laughing out loud the next.” -
John Rector, author of Already Gone
“Make no mistake, McBride is the king of Chainsaw Noir, and there’s
no one else who can step to the throne.” - Chuck Wendig, author of
Blackbirds
“Matthew McBride writes like a train doing 80 miles an hour towards
a curve rated for 30. The doors are rattling, the couplings are
screaming, and you’re riding the blind, hoping like hell that the
destination lives up to the ride. Which it does, and more. Matthew
McBride is exactly my kind of writer, and Swollen Red
Sun is precisely my kind of book.” - Benjamin Whitmer, author
of Cry Father
“Matthew McBride is an American original. His dialogue crackles
like a brush fire and he has a rare gift for pitch-perfect details
that breathe life into each and every character. There’s no other
writer I know whose prose could sear paint off a wall.” - Hilary
Davidson, Anthony Award–winning author of Blood Always Tells
“Read [Frank Sinatra in a Blender] in a day. Loved it!” - Charlie
Sheen
“McBride’s novel combines the backwoods creepiness of Nic
Pizzolatto’s HBO series True Detective, the understated country
humor of Johnny Shaw’s Big Maria, and the sensitivity to character
and nuance of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone.” - Booklist
“Gasconade local McBride (whose previous book was the cult favorite
Frank Sinatra in a Blender) gives Breaking Bad fans more down and
dirty meth action.” - Publishers Weekly
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