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For $7,000, a local artist wants your help to honor Bushwick with a font inspired by the trendy Brooklyn neighborhood. “The typeface Bushwick was conceived of about a year and a half ago after a day of documenting signage, murals and graffiti around St. Nicholas Avenue and Jefferson Street. The letterforms that I started drawing soon after that day evolved into the first iteration of Bushwick the typeface. Currently, I’m about halfway through the lengthy design process and I need your help to finish the typeface in classic DIY fashion, without client or commercial limitations and purely for the Quoted
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love of designing typography,” Pablo Medina wrote on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. A video accompanying the post further explained the “renaissance” that the neighborhood is undergoing, and how Medina likes to make typography inspired by urban environments. “I just love Bushwick. It’s such an amazing place. There’s so much going on,” said Medina, who runs his own studio, Design is Culture, in Bushwick. Medina describes Bushwick as “refreshing,” because people are building things in a grassroots, artbased way. He travels to cities across the world and photographs signage, letterforms, typography and hand-painted signs, paying attention to styles and aesthetics. “There’s an abundance of signage [in Bushwick] and I was really inspired by it all,” Medina said. Letting what he photographs “inform the typeface,” Medina was inspired by the murals in Bushwick, many of which include letter forms. Graffiti, street art, the industrial aesthetics of the neighborhood and its Latino community also played a part. As part Cu-
ban and part Colombian, Medina wanted to highlight the immigrant quality of Bushwick, which is shown in its sign painting. He also hopes it can “continue to be develop free from any client or commercial limitations.” And that’s where the donations play into the equation.
There are 40 days left in the campaign for Medina, who’s had his studio in the neighborhood since February, to reach his goal. In about the first 24 hours, he raised $283 for his project. But as he explains on his campaign page, the money is going toward more than the creation of the typeface:
“Any artist or designer who works on self-initiated projects can tell you, it is not only project expenses that one has to cover but also living expenses, so I hope that we go well beyond conservative goal that I’ve set.” Those expenses, for six months of work, include: mastering fees: $2,700 ($300 per style); promotion: $800; copyright fees: $200; six months studio rent: $3,600; and six months living expenses including apartment rent, food, etc.: $18,000. Contributors can get advanced copies of the typeface, including on a T-shirt and tote bag, and those who donate higher amounts will receive a dinner for two at Bushwick restaurant Faro. “To be able to finish it with the same level of creative freedom I need your help,” Medina said in his crowdfunding video. “By contributing to this cause you’ll help support independent typeface design being created right here in this community. and you’ll also help see Bushwick the typeface all the way to completion.” CRISTABELLE TUMOLA @MetroNewYork
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MTA shows off bus technology Testing. Two new technologies on city buses could lead to a pilot program. The MTA is testing two new technologies on city buses that could help keep bus drivers, riders and pedestrians safe. The transit agency is currently in a 60day test of two systems — a pedestrian turn warning system that audibly warns pedestrians that a bus is turning, and a smart sensor technology that flashes to alert drivers to movement on the front and sides of the bus. The turn warnings are currently on four buses — two in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn and one in Queens. The driver-alert system is on two buses out of Brooklyn. The results of the 60day test could turn into a pilot program on 200 buses in 2016, according to the MTA. The estimated cost of installing the technology on the total bus fleet is $20 million for the turn warning and $57 million for the driver alerts. “Unfortunately, the world has gotten more automated, and with that automation you’ve got a lot more distractions,” said Stephen Vidal, VP of transportation safety and
training. “We’ve done an awful lot on training on our drivers on the hazards of being distracted while driving, and we can’t train the pedestrians. … People are on their phones, they’re reading or typing a text message or email and we’re hoping this will give us an additional advantage of controlling that environment.” “We like this technology, we’re in the early stages and I think everyone is trying to figure out how pedestrian alerts can further Vision Zero,” Paul Steely White, executive director of Transportation Alternatives. But White said that placing the blame on pedestrians for their own “demise” is “reprehensible” and unfair to those on foot, and the families of pedestrians killed in crashes. White said MTA drivers killed nine pedestrians in crosswalks last year, and eight of those pedestrians had the right of way. “So far this year, zero pedestrians have been struck in the crosswalk [by MTA drivers],” White said. “While there is room for technology to advance safety, what seems to be working now is drivers knowing how to yield to pedestrians.” WENDY JOAN BIDDLECOMBE Wendy.Biddlecombe@metro.us
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MTA ready for Hurricane Joaquin Stormy weather. The agency says it learned from Sandy and more crews will be ready as the storm approaches. With Hurricane Joaquin heading toward New York, the MTA has additional crews ready to keep water out of the stations and monitor conditions. The storm was upgraded to a Category 4 storm by the National Hurricane Center on Thursday, as it passed through the Bahamas. New York City is under a coastal flood advisory through Friday morning, and coastal flood advisory through Saturday, as well as a hazardous weather outlook. Friday’s forecast calls for rain after 2 p.m., with wind gusts up to 33 mph and up to half an inch of precipitation. Rain will continue through the
weekend and next week. “There’s a lot that we learned [since Sandy], how we can best protect our assets,” said MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz, who said the agency has completed repairs on two of the nine subway tubes damaged during Sandy, and short- and long-term resiliency plans. “We are working to make sure we have extra personnel in place, we’ll make a determination to what type of service we can run based on how the storm tracks,” Ortiz said. Giant sandbags and metal fences are now reinforcing the MTA’s Coney Island yards, which are below sea level and sustained damage during Sandy, Ortiz said. The South Ferry station has a metal temporary stair cover to seal off the entrance to prevent flooding. There are 500 separate protection points in lower Manhattan that can be sealed in case of flooding. Other long-term im-
An eye on the storm Up-to-date information on Hurricane Joaquin is available at Weather.gov.
provements since Sandy include a 3-mile sea wall along Broad Channel to protect the Rockaways and the A line. Speaking on the John Gambling Show on Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is preparing for Joaquin to hit as early as Monday, and the city has over 30 agencies at a “high state of readiness.” “Our Office of Emergency Management is on full alert and in full activation. We’re constantly checking in with the National Weather Service. We’re going to be ready either way,” de Blasio said, touting a $20 billion post-Sandy plan to prepare the city for storms. WENDY JOAN BIDDLECOMBE
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House passes sweeping defense policy bill; measure’s future is cloudy The U.S. House of Representatives passed the $612 billion annual defense authorization bill on Thursday, but the measure’s future was clouded by a
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A gunman opened fire on Thursday at a community college in Oregon, killing 13 people and wounding some 20 others before he was shot to death by police, in the latest mass killing to rock a U.S. school, state and county officials said. There were conflicting reports on the number of dead and wounded in the shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College, which began shortly after 10:30 a.m. local time. The state’s attorney general told the local NBC affiliate that 13 people had been slain, 20 wounded and the shooter killed. The office of Ellen Rosenblum did not immediately return calls seeking comment. Governor Kate Brown said the suspect was a 20-year-old man but he was not identified further by authorities. CNN reported that four guns belonging to the shooter were recovered from the scene. The killings have fueled demands for more gun control in the U.S. — where some say ownership of firearms is protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution — and better care for the mentally ill. Kortney Moore, 18, told local newspaper News Review that she was in her writing class in Snyder Hall when a gunshot came through the window and struck her teacher in the head.
Moore said the gunman told people to get on the ground, then asked them to stand up and state their religion before he started shooting. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin said the gunman was slain in an exchange of gunfire with police officers. “It’s been a terrible day,” Hanlin said. The sheriff did not say how many people had been slain or wounded at the college in Roseburg, a city of about 20,000 people some 260 miles south of Portland. CNN reported that among the wounded was a female who had been shot in the chest. The Oregonian said that at least six patients were critically injured, citing an official with Life Flight. Student Brandy Winter, in a posting on Facebook, said she was in a classroom in Snyder Hall, next door to the room where the shooting began, and ran, along with her classmates, when they heard the gunfire. “I ran to the edge of the campus, down a hill, and waited. From talking with a student in the classroom where it happen, almost every person in the room was shot by a man with four guns,” Winter said. Authorities were combing through the campus, which serves more than 13,000 students, 3,000 of them full-time. Fall term began on Monday. REUTERS
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The federal trial for the man charged in the deaths of nine people at a South Carolina church was delayed on Thursday, as U.S. prosecutors told a judge they have not decided whether to seek
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Matt Damon blinds you with science THE FUN STARTS HERE RICHARD PECKETT @metronewyork letters@metro.us
In Ridley Scott’s “The Martian,” Matt Damon is forced to, as he puts it, “science the s—” out of his predicament when he finds himself stranded on Mars after a mission goes awry. If being isolated 140 million miles away from home isn’t bad enough, his character, Mark Watney, is injured with only a limited supply of food and water. But the more-than-resourceful astronaut transforms the research station into a field to cultivate the humble potato, as well as hatch other crafty means of survival. While Watney becomes a folk hero back on Earth, Damon himself might well be responsible for turning an entire generation into would-be science superstars. Being lost in space, again: “The first thing I said to Ridley is, ‘I’ve
From cult book to Hollywood screenplay “Drew Goddard, who wrote the screenplay, fell in love with this book. I’ve read interviews with [author] Andy Weir where he said, ‘I just came up with this premise and let the science dictate what happened.’ [Mark Watney, his character,] just does
done this cameo in [“Interstellar,” where] I play a guy who is stranded on a planet by himself. Then I’m going to take a year and a half off, and then I’m going to do a movie playing a guy who is stranded on a planet by himself. This might be a really bad idea.’ Ridley laughed it off. He said, ‘The movies’ feel and characters are so different. Plus people’s attention spans are so
everything [like] how a person would behave if he were a scientist stranded on Mars, and these would be the actions he would have to take. And so he let the science drive the book. Drew said when I first talked to him that he wanted it to be a love letter to science.”
short that by the time this comes out one year later, they’ll have forgotten all about you being in “Interstellar.”’” On his character’s intense loneliness and isolation: “I would be dead probably within 20 minutes. I mean, I’m an actor, so, ‘Wait, nobody’s going to bring me a coffee?’ It would be suicide. I think the loneliness part is a part that I try
to protect in my life. I was talking to a friend of mine a few years ago about technology. There are all these wonderful things that come along with it, but the ability to be deeply reflective is getting lost. It’s almost something you have to practice: putting your phone away and going for a walk. That’s the way we all used to because usually that’s where the better ideas come from — from being reflective. So a little bit of loneliness is great, but I wouldn’t last very long, no.” Does he “science the s—” out of real life?: “No. [Laughs] I don’t do science in my spare time. If my kids have something to do, I’ll do experiments with them or if they have stuff for school, but otherwise no. I try to read about everything that’s changing and what’s kind of happening in technology. I’m interested in where we’re going and
the Ray Kurzweil type of thinking. I love hearing those guys lecture or watching them on YouTube, and trying to guess what kind of world my kids are going to live in. Because it’s changing so rapidly and it’s going to happen exponentially. The life they’re going to live isn’t going to bear that much resemblance to the one that we did, so that’s very interesting.”
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What to see this weekend at the New York Film Festival The fest’s second weekend (of three) belongs to Steve Jobs, Tom Hanks and Queens.
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NYFF’s second weekend is partly devoted to “Steve Jobs,” which tells a tale already told on film twice, though neither was written by Aaron Sorkin. And neither took a bold anti-biopic approach, with only three lengthy sequences, each a flurry of scampering around, batted-about Sorkinese and heady ideas about not only Jobs’ temperament but about how his technology forever altered human interaction. “Bridge of Spies,” with Tom Hanks, bows this weekend at the New York Film Festival. For showtimes and tickets, visit www.filmlinc.org/NYFF2015.
In addition to “Steve Jobs,” there are two other splashy debuts. First, New Yorkers get the first look of anyone in the world at “Bridge of Spies,” Steven Spielberg’s dip into the Cold War well, with Tom Hanks squaring off against stage legend Mark Rylance. Meanwhile, Michael Moore offers his newest thumb-in-the-eye of power, “Where to Invade Next,” which again looks at American pols’ ceaseless love of playing imperialist. (Both have yet to be screened for local critics.)
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France’s Arnaud Desplechin likes his films overstuffed. It’s intoxicating, though, and “My Golden Days” — a prequel of sorts to his great 1996 “My Sex Life,” on the character played by Mathieu Amalric, the director’s own Robert De Niro — treats what could be a mere tale of young love to a flurry of grumpiness, romanticism and darting camerawork.
Nearly every year nonfiction legend Frederick Wiseman somehow cobbles together an epic documentary about an institution or a community. He’s 85. “In Jackson Heights,” his 40th or so film, drops in on the Queens neighborhood to soak up the good (unparalleled diversity, great music, strong support groups for the oppressed) and the bad (gentrification, old shops facing eviction). No one has as clear an eye as Wiseman, and over three hours he makes mere observance seem immersive.
Alain Delon, one of the truly perfect specimens ever caught on film, no doubt looks a beaut in the new restoration of “Rocco and His Brothers,” Luchino Visconti’s towering 1960 melodrama, which traces five brothers who leave their hometown for decadent Milan, with tragic, sometimes wonderfully overwrought consequences. Visconti was warming up for his next film, the masterpiece “The Leopard,” but this comes awfully close.
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‘The Martian’ is a rare feel-good Ridley Scott movie Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Philippe Petit, the man who, in 1974, tightrope walked between the Twin Towers, in Robert Zemeckis’ “The Walk.” SONY
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••••• There’s a solid reason for “The Walk” to exist and, of course, it’s the walk itself. The story in Robert Zemeckis’ latest was already told in “Man on Wire,” which too chronicled French acrobat Philippe Petit’s storied and stranger-than-fiction tightrope stroll between the Twin Towers in 1974. But footage of Petit’s saunter is virtually nonexistent, and “Man on Wire” was forced to resort to insistent music and
hyperbolic talking heads to conjure up a spell. “The Walk,” meanwhile, has 3-D, IMAX and one of cinema’s most tech-friendly maximalists at the helm. The big centerpiece (at the end, as it were) is not a letdown. Zemeckis creates both a sense of vertigo and a sense of peace, transcendence. It would be easy to say this capper is all “The Walk” has going for it, but for the record it’s all of a piece, and Zemeckis makes the story his own, which is to say he turns it into one of his proudly cornball triumphs of the eccentric spirit. Zemeckis is one of digital cinema’s best friends, and he knows that all movies are an optical illusion. He’s using tech and the
language of populist film to bring the World Trade Center back to life, turning the towers into real objects that are nonetheless trapped in the screen. When Petit first encounters them in person, he touches the side with his nose, as though using his head to create a mind-meld; all we, as voyeurs, can do is look. But Zemeckis is also re-creating the walk itself — another ephemeral thing that once lived only in pictures and rapturous accounts, that couldn’t even fully and powerfully come back in a doc as loved and award-gobbling as was “Man on Wire.” “The Walk” is at once thin and mighty — redundant in some ways, yet quietly, even tragically, bittersweet. MP
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Runner,” in the (near) future — meanwhile, is downright upbeat, even utopian, encouraging us to cheer and whoop, and usually to laugh. In a way, it’s the most surreal movie of the year. Then again, look deeper, and it’s not that cheery. Matt Damon plays Mark Watney, an astronaut stranded on Mars after a freak storm seems to have left him dead. Like Tom Hanks in “Cast Away,” he’s a man alone, with no way — in the first half, at least — of communicating with the team back home. The difference is Mark has real pluck, delighting in finding practical ways to, say, grow potatoes in the Martian sand. And he has tech: He fends off isolation by recording video logs, and the silence can always be filled by one crew member’s old playlist, even if it’s all disco.
Damon’s good vibes go a long way to masking what a harsh and dispassionate film this is. It’s unabashedly pro-science in a way that’s hugely happy-making; at one point, Mark even excitedly crows, through a beamed smile, “I’m going to science the s— out of this!” But it also understands that science is hard and takes time, that experiments routinely fail miserably and often succeed through excessive trial and error. Throughout all this hardship and frayed nerves, Scott keeps “The Martian” light and zippy and fun, rarely turning down a discolaced set piece and always spinning disasters, no matter how intense, into dark comedy. It’s another tough, merciless, godless Ridley Scott movie about the indifference of the universe. It’s just fun this time.
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"The Affair" was one of the more unusual TV shows to premiere in the last year, seeing as it was told from the shifting perspectives of two participants in an affair, Noah (Dominic West) and Alison (Ruth Wilson). The series played with audience expectations about who was telling the truth, while also showing differing versions of how Noah's wife, Helen (Maura Tierney), and Ruth's husband, Cole (Joshua Jackson), reacted to what was happening. The show returns this Sunday with a new twist: We’ll now be getting Cole
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and Helen’s perspectives as well. We talked to Jackson about how Cole is dealing with betrayal.
Where do we find Cole this season?
We find him in a not very good place. The aftermath of everything that went down last year has left him kind of bereft.
Will he start to come out of it as the season goes on? The journey for all the characters in the second season is dealing with the “Holy s—, what do we do now?” Each one of them has their own version of that. His version is essentially to start from a totally clean slate in life with no
attachments and no hope and no future and no past and just figure out who the hell he wants to be.
Well, it’s not the worst thing to get a chance to start over.
It’s not a path that anybody would choose for themselves. I guess in a life that’s going to happen
“One of the things that was challenging as an actor in the first year for myself and Maura, for everybody who was outside of their own perspective, was being essentially a memory. That was fun and interesting and you get to paint in broad strokes, but it’s nice to be able to go inside of Cole’s perspective now, because we all see ourselves as more competent in ways that we’re not, and more frail in ways that maybe we’re not. And so you get to have a sense of his own
every once in a while, though it happened pretty spectacularly for him. [Laughs]
sense of his weakness and insecurity and all of those things that make us human, which you didn’t really get a sense of last year. He was always very strong and very direct and very composed. It’s nice to be able to break all that stuff down and speak to how he feels on the inside.”
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3 things to watch for as Jets tackle Fins in London NFL. The Jets will look to send Miami further down the AFC East standings.
Sunday’s game (9:30 a.m., CBS) will be a chance to rebound for the Jets, who had a comeback attempt thwarted last week in a 2417 home loss to the Eagles. And they face an opponent in the Dolphins who are vulnerable and have not looked good in their 1-2 start to the year. The offense is disjointed, the best player on the defense is doing his own thing and life in Miami is not terribly sunny. The Jets travel overseas for a regular season game for the first time ever, taking their 2-1 record into famous Wembley Stadium. These games in London have proven to be a bit wacky at times, plus you can factor in fatigue, travel, time zones and a stadium not configured for American football.
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Outside of the first game of preseason, these Jets hadn’t lost under head coach Todd Bowles until Week 3, so something will be learned about the Jets head coach from this experience. How will he focus the team after a tough loss and get them to regroup during a week with travel and an unusual set-up? This will be a telling week for Bowles and one where his coaching style will be evident.
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Miami made this trip last season, a 38-14 win over the Raiders at Wembley Stadium. The familiarity with the flight, with the field, with the surroundings, might be beneficial. “We’re doing a lot of similar things from a schedule standpoint. Nothing is ever always the same, but I thought last year our operations people and our advance people really did a fantastic job with the logistics and the details of the trip, and they again have done an excellent job,” head coach Joe Philbin said.
It is hit or miss when it comes to Ndamukong Suh and how the Dolphins’ prize free agent is performing. He had four tackles in Week 3 against the Buffalo Bills but has yet to register a sack at all this season (in fact, the Dolphins as a team have one sack to date). Suh can be disruptive in the interior for sure but he hasn’t been the dominant player the Fins hoped for when they signed him this past offseason. He’ll likely be matched up against guard Brian Winters.
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actually garner more per game (373) due to a great rushing attack (leaguebest 153 per) and a play-action based passing game that leaves defenses guessing.
Defensively, the Giants and Bills seem to be mirror images, as they both possess great run defenses (each allowing just 74 yards per game), but own porous pass defenses, 31st (Buffalo) and 32nd (New York). Sunday’s tilt at Orchard Park (1 p.m., FOX), though, may be decided by two offenses that are near the top of the league in essentially every important category. The Giants (1-2) are averaging 347 yards per game, mainly on the strength of quarterback Eli Manning’s 243 passing yards per game. The Bills (2-1) get their yards in a different manner, as they
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Sure, the Bills are tied with the Giants for the stingiest run defense, and New York’s rushing attack has a lot to be desired (93 yards per game), but for Manning to make the passing game work, they have to at least try to run the ball. Buffalo’s 31st pass defense can be exploited should they be kept somewhat honest in defending the run.
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New York Jets (-1.5) vs. Miami Dolphins [9:30 a.m., game in London] The Dolphins, a team that some expected would rise to the top of the AFC East after a productive offseason that saw them nab Ndamukong Suh, are rapidly deteriorating. Suh is apparently disgruntled, and has only three tackles in three games this season. The Jets, on the other hand, have played surprisingly well in the first year of the Todd Bowles era. After getting a big win over the Browns and earning a quality win over the Colts, they played admirably in defeat to a desperate Eagles squad last week. Expect the Jets defense (ranked fourth in yards allowed and first in points allowed in 2015) to stifle the Dolphins overseas. The pick: Jets -1.5 Kansas City Chiefs at Cincinnati Bengals (-4) The Chiefs were not a good road team last year; they went 3-5 and averaged only 19 points in those contests. Their one win this year came on the road but it was a close shave against the Texans, who look like a mess this season. Meanwhile, the Bengals have been a great
home team the last few seasons (21-9 in their last 30 home contests) and they got off to another winning start in Paul Brown Stadium by beating the Chargers in Week 2. Cincinnati’s offense has been unstoppable so far this season, gaining over 414 YPG, just behind New England for the NFL lead. The Chiefs are capable of generating some pressure on Andy Dalton, but I doubt this 24th-ranked squad is capable of holding the Bengals under 20 points. The pick: Bengals -4
only road tilt, a 20-3 loss to the 49ers, who have subsequently been shellacked by the Steelers and Cardinals. The Broncos have the sixth-best rush defense in the NFL, so once the villainous Adrian Peterson is shut down, Teddy Bridgewater will be forced to match scores with a living legend. That likely won’t end well, as Denver has already forced six INTs on defense this season. The pick: Broncos -6.5 ROBERT CRISCOLA
Minnesota Vikings at Denver Broncos (-6.5) After being pronounced dead by more than a few “experts,” Peyton Manning looked alive and well last Sunday night when he carved up the Lions at Ford Field. Now the 3-0 Broncos return home, where they’ve won all but two games they’ve played since Manning joined them in 2012. The Vikings may be 2-1 but they looked listless in their
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The Debt Must Be Repaid...or Else From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect
HOUSE of THIEVES by CHARLES BELFOURE
“A roisterous, supremely entertaining adventure.” —BOOKLIST Starred Review
“The story…rockets along at full-speed from one breathtaking scene to the next. I wish I’d created the villain, James Kent, a man so evil I want to steal him for my next book.” —ALEX GRECIAN, national bestselling author of The Yard and Harvest Man
—ARIEL LAWHON, author of The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
ISBN: 978-1-4926-1789-1 Hardcover • $25.99 Available September 2015 20 new york Weekend, October 2-4, 2015
“Rich in mischief…it is as complex and ambitious as New York City itself. This is historical fiction at its best.”