Jason Starr
Nothing Personal

"Starr paints it blacker than black, putting his compelling characters through the wringer before hanging them out to dry…" — Kirkus Reviews

"For a walk on the dark side, there's no better companion than the talented Jason Starr. He leads you to the lowest rungs of human experience, puts you on a first-name basis with despair and corruption, and somehow makes it all seem fun." — Martha C. Lawrence, author of Pisces Rising

The DePinos are miserable, living in a tiny rundown apartment above a deli on Tenth Avenue. The Sussmans have the seemingly perfect life, living in a chic building on the Upper East Side. When Joey DePino loses his job and is threatened by his bookies and loan shark, he involves the Sussmans in a sick, desperate plan to pay off his gambling debts. But ad exec David Sussman has his own problems — foremost among them a jilted mistress — and won't go down without a fight. As the lives of the DePinos and the Sussmans become increasingly intertwined, Joey and David plunge their families into a moral-less world where anything is possible and nothing is personal.

Film rights for Nothing Personal have been optioned by Spice Factory, with Starr attached to adapt his own novel.

Jason Starr lives in New York City. His first novel, Cold Caller (W.W. Norton), has been published in six languages and is being developed into a movie.

"A(n) original modern noir tale reminiscent of Jim Thompson or David Goodis." — The Irish Times