"I drove all the way across town to cut up this son of a bitch, but it's these three flights of stairs that got me worried. . ." It's meaner than a puppy juggler. It's sharper than the knife that hot babe is aiming at your back. It's got you so hard 'n bothered you don't see bad news coming. It's the best of contemporary neo-noir suspense fiction, raw and uncut from the net's most hardcore, award-winning site. . . "The unhinged depravity of your standard street freak is a very difficult thing to predict. . .." So snap the neck off your favorite brew, find a comfortable barstool, and dig. . .the lesbian-in-fishnets on a killing spree. The cop who breaks more laws than he defends. A pit-fight champion who's drugged-up, revved-up and way less-than-human. Mobsters whose mercy is worse than their payback. The restless ghosts of Johnny Cash and Ol' Blue Eyes haunting the streets. And the "pubic-ly-challenged" dream woman who's happy to deliver the ultimate final cut. . . "In this game, every move is a risk. Everything you do has repercussions. . ." Step up to a meth-fueled, E-ticket ride through the wild side, where no deed goes unpunished, no heart is true. . .and evil is the only thing that's pure. . . Hardcore Hardboiled "You have to look hard to find two consecutive pages that don't deal with sex or violence, but why would you want to? If you're man enough, you'll love this book. If you're not, give it to your girlfriend. If she accepts it and enjoys it, never turn your back on her."--Otto Penzler Big Daddy Thug/Todd Robinson's writing has appeared in Danger City, Demolition, Out Of The Gutter, Pulp Pusher, Crimespree and Writers Digest's The Years Best Writing 2003. He is the creator and chief editor of Thuglit.com. The stories he's edited for Thuglit.com have been nominated for several awards, including The Derringer (presented by the Short Mystery Fiction Society) and The Million Writer's Award, and been have been selected for Best American Mystery Stories and Best Noir 2006.

Hardcore Hardboiled

Literature & Fiction

Robinson, Todd

United States

Kensington Publisher

What is this book about? (DTS) Data Transformation Services helps you create a transactional system to load and transform your data from and to a wide variety of sources. SQL Server DTS was introduced in the release of SQL Server 7.0; however, SQL Server 2000 sees the functionality and power of this outstanding and incredibly useful tool greatly increased. DTS can be used to maximum effect in data-driven applications, offering rapid and effective solutions to a wide range of common problems. Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS provides a complete introduction to DTS fundamentals and architecture before exploring the more complex data transformations involved in moving data between different servers, applications, and providers. The book then focuses on DTS programming via the DTS object model, enabling developers to incorporate custom transformations and reporting capabilities into their applications. Advanced topics are explained including error handling, dynamic data loading, and data warehouses. With code and case studies, this book gives the reader a complete picture of how to use DTS to its fullest potential. What does this book cover? Here are just a few of the things you'll find covered in this book: <ul>
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Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Services)

Computers & Technology

Knight, Brian

Chaffin, Mark

Programming

Wrox

The debut novel from the creator of Thuglit. Boo Malone lost everything when he was sent to St. Gabriel's Home for Boys. There, he picked up a few key survival skills; a wee bit of an anger management problem; and his best friend for life, Junior. Now adults, Boo and Junior have a combined weight of 470 pounds (mostly Boo's), about ten grand in tattoos (mostly Junior's), and a talent for wisecracking banter. Together, they provide security for The Cellar, a Boston nightclub where the bartender Audrey doles out hugs and scoldings for her favorite misfits, and the night porter, Luke, expects them to watch their language. At last Boo has found a family. But when Boo and Junior are hired to find Cassandra, a well-to-do runaway slumming among the authority-shy street kids, Boo sees in the girl his own long-lost younger sister. And as the case deepens with evidence that Cassie is being sexually exploited, Boo's blind desire for justice begins to push his surrogate family's loyalty to the breaking point. Cassie's life depends on Boo's determination to see the case through, but that same determination just might finally drive him and Junior apart. What's looking like an easy payday is turning into a hard bounce--for everyone.

The Hard Bounce

Genre Fiction

GALLERY BOOKS

Boo Malone lost everything when he was sent to St. Gabriel's Home for Boys. There, he picked up a few key survival skills; a wee bit of an anger management problem; and his best friend for life, Junior. Now adults, Boo and Junior have a combined weight of 470 pounds (mostly Boo's), about ten grand in tattoos (mostly Junior's), and a talent for wisecracking banter. Together, they provide security for The Cellar, a Boston nightclub where the bartender Audrey doles out hugs and scoldings for her favorite misfits, and the night porter, Luke, expects them to watch their language. At last Boo has found a family.But when Boo and Junior are hired to find Cassandra, a well-to-do runaway slumming among the authority-shy street kids, Boo sees in the girl his own long-lost younger sister. And as the case deepens with evidence that Cassie is being sexually exploited, Boo's blind desire for justice begins to push his surrogate family's loyalty to the breaking point. Cassie's life depends on Boo's determination to see the case through, but that same determination just might finally drive him and Junior apart. What's looking like an easy payday is turning into a hard bounce--for everyone.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

From the creator of Thuglit.com--DIRTY WORDS The first collection from award-winning short story writer, Todd Robinson. Featuring: SO LONG JOHNNIE SCUMBAG—selected for The Year's Best Writing 2003 by Writer's Digest. The Derringer Award nominated short, ROSES AT HIS FEET THE LONG COUNT—selected as a Notable Story of the Year in Best American Mystery Stories 2005. PLUS eight more tales of in-your-face crime fiction.

Dirty Words

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The loose-cannons of crime fiction over at Thuglit Magazine bring you CRUEL YULE! Featuring: THE SANTA CON by Rob Hart CHRISTMAS MORNING COMING DOWN by Jordan Harper MISTLETOE by Hilary Davidson LETTERS TO SANTA by Thomas Pluck OKEECHOBEE by Ed Kurtz FELIZ NAVIDEAD by Brace Godfrey (as discovered by Johnny Shaw) THE BRASS COIN by Justin Porter A VERY BLACKY CHRISTMAS by Angel Luis Colón FORK by Jen Conley UNHOLY NIGHT by Terrence McCauley ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE… by Todd Robinson Eleven stories of crime fiction to get you in the holiday spirit—as long as your holiday spirit is kindled by copious amounts of illicit drug use, murder, robbery, hand grenades, hand-removals and holiday handjobs… BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL IN THERE! EDITOR'S NOTE: Consider yourself warned. So when you stuff this collection in Granny's stocking, don't come complaining to us when you find her keeled over by New Years, her copy of CRUEL YULE clutched between her cold fingers, a horrified expression locked onto her mug for all eternity. Capiche?

Thuglit presents: CRUEL YULE: Holiday Tales of Crime for People on the Naughty List

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

McCauley, Terrence

Davidson, Hilary

Shaw, Johnny

Hart, Rob

Kurtz, Ed

Harper, Jordan

Conley, Jen

Porter, Justin

Colon, Angel

Mystery

One of the new outstanding features of SQL Server is Data Transformation Services (DTS). DTS can be used by both developers and database administrators (DBAs) and is attracting a lot of interest. There is a demand for information and currently no other books are available to satisfy this. DTS enables data to be moved between a wide variety of sources and destinations, as well as transforming the data along the way to suit your requirements. DTS can be used to maximum effect in data-driven applications, enabling dynamic data transfer across internet and intranet applications. This offers rapid and effective solutions to common problems such as: 
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The capabilities of DTS are large and this book will give the reader a complete picture of how to use DTS to its fullest potential.

Professional SQL Server 2000 DTS (Data Transformation Service)

Robinson, T.

Wrox Press

"Todd Robinson has written such tender love poems in MASS FOR SHUT-INS that you might read them to your significant other and hope for success—a veritable Neruda of Nebraska. In 'Skin,' the speaker is 'a soft / ravening / hominid torched / by rosewater/ &amp; coconut oil.' The poems are no less fervent toward the old sod, beautifully evoking the contemporary Midwest. He feels 'the jolt of coal trains / through the gut of steaming America.' A splendid debut."—Therese Svoboda

Mass for Shut-Ins

Poetry

THE BACKWATERS PRESS

The long-awaited second novel in Todd Robinson's Anthony Award-nominated Boo and Junior series The long-awaited second novel in Todd Robinson’s Anthony Award-nominated Boo and Junior series When a waitress at The Cellar asks Boo and Junior to scare her roommate Dana’s harassing ex-boyfriend, Byron, Boo’s white knight impulses kick in and they perform the job with gusto, leaving Byron bloodied but very much alive. So when Byron is found dead, they’re shocked. They’re even more shocked when they learn that nothing is what they originally thought, and they’re being held accountable in the man's death. With Junior called in for questioning, Boo is determined to clear their names by finding Byron’s true killer. It’s a quest in which Boo will have to face down crooked cops, crazed guard dogs, a rival security crew, the Irish mob andworst of allhis own ingrained prejudices. Action-packed, outrageously funny, and brutally honest, Rough Trade brings back crime fiction’s favorite bouncers and takes them well out of their comfort zone in a novel that’s whip-smart, hilarious, gritty and above all human, proving that Todd Robinson is one of the most important voices in crime fiction.

Rough Trade

Polis Books

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