Thirteen sordid and salacious tales of hustlers, lovers and losers, killers and thrillers carousing in a charade of lust, love, luck, and murder...where shifty, shady types clamor to survive, when no way out seems to be the only way out... Praise for BUSTED VALENTINES: "You read stuff like this and the top of your head comes off. This is pure dark, stark, powerful poetry." -Les Edgerton, author of The Bitch, The Rapist and The Genuine, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping "It's top shelf writing with a bloodshot eye for the gutter." -Charles Benoit, Edgar-nominated author of Relative Danger and You "De Blase wields a big heart and a bigger knife for twisting." -Jack Getze, Spinetingler Magazine