Hard Feelings (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) - Tapa blanda

Thirty-four-year-old Richie Segal's life seems to be falling apart as he worries about his lack of career success, his drinking problem, his wife's possible unfaithfulness, and his memories of Michael Rudnick, the neighborhood bully who had made his life miserable as a child, until a chance encounter with Rudnick gives him a chance for a new start. Original. 25,000 first printing.

#8217;t going so well for Richie Segal. His prospects at the job are pretty miserable and, what’s more humiliating, his wife’s prospects at her job are pretty good. Richie knows he’s a good salesman, but he just can’t seem to land an account. And he’s starting to drink again. And worry about whether Paula’s seeing that old high school flame, or maybe someone new. It’s a little early, at thirty-four, for a mid-life crisis, but that’s pretty much what it feels like. And there’re those unwelcome memories of the neighborhood bully, Michael Rudnick and what he did to Richie when he was thirteen. Richie Segal’s feeling, well, abused.

Just when Richie’s about as low as he can get, he runs into Rudnick on the street and knows exactly what he needs to do. And suddenly things seem to be going much better. That is until they get much, much worse. In the classic tradition of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain, Hard Feelings i