"...a detective as hard boiled as a twenty-minute egg, and wisecracks as sharp as a new Gillette!" --
Dale Furutani, Anthony and Macavity winning author of the Ken Tanaka and Samurai Mystery series"Barer is obviously twisted. `Headlock' is a hoot. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!" --
G.M. Ford, author of The Deader the Better, Last Ditch, Bum's Rush, and Slow Burn."Brilliant and hilarious!" --
Tony Fennelly, author of The Glory Hole Murders, and 1-900-DEAD"Burl Barer's new action-packed novel had me laughing my ass off, gasping for breath, and cursing his talent!" --
Sparkle Hayter, author of Revenge of the Cootie Girls, and The Last Manly Man"Sue Grafton on PCP -- clever, quirky, and often outrageous." --
Lee Goldberg, executive producer of the CBS series, MARTIAL LAW.
Burl Barer is an Edgar Award winning author and two-time Anthony Award nominee with extensive media, advertising, marketing, and public relations experience.
Barer wrote, produced, and often voiced, national radio and television spots for such performing artists as Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, Carly Simon, Eric Clapton, Moody Blues, Fleetwood Mac, Liza Minelli, Temptations, Four Tops, and many more. Barer also created and produced national radio and/or television campaigns for Warner/Electra/Atlantic, Media One, Management III, and Seattle Pacific Industries. Other national/regional clients have included Penzoil, Safeway, Superlube, Black Angus Restaurants, the Aladdin Theater for the Performing Arts, and the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas.
While Barer contributed his media savvy to numerous publications and projects over the years, it was his internationally acclaimed 442 page critical/biographical study of Leslie Charteris' enduringly different Robin Hood of Modern Crime, Simon Templar, which earned him the highest honor from the Mystery Writers of America -- The 1994 Edgar Allen Poe Award. The Saint: A Complete History in Print, Radio, Television, and Film not only received the Edgar, but also an Anthony Award nomination from the World Mystery Convention.
Contracted by the estate of Leslie Charteris to pen a minimum of three new novels in the popular Saint series, Barer completed Capture the Saint, the first original Saint novel in thirteen years. Film rights to the previous 52 Saint books were acquired by producer Robert Evans. Paramount Pictures released the Saint, starring Val Kilmer, in 1997. Barer's novelization of the film's screenplay, THE SAINT, published by Simon and Schuster Pocketbooks, has sold over 100,000 copies in English, and has been translated into French, Japanese, Hebrew, Chinese, and German.
At the request of Warner Brothers, Barer accompanied Mel Gibson, James Garner, and Jodie Foster on the set of the hit film Maverick, writing the colorful companion book to that rollicking, uproarious western. Man Overboard: The Counterfeit Resurrection of Phil Champagne (1995), a wry and humorous genre-bending true crime adventure earned a nomination for the coveted Anthony Award by the World Mystery Convention as Best True Crime Book of the Year.
Barer's HEADLOCK, the first novel in a new private eye series, is scheduled for September 2000 publication by Deadly Alibi Press. Kensington Publishing will release his latest non-fiction book, MURDER IN THE FAMILY, in August 2000 as part of their Pinnacle True Crime series. He is currently writing another true crime for Pinnacle, based on the St. Pierre murders in Tacoma, Washington.
