Neil McMahon is the author of a trio of tough, spare medical thrillers starring doctor-sleuth Carroll Monks, as well as a forthcoming thriller called Revolution No. 9, due in January, and now HarperCollins executive editor
Dan Conaway has stepped up to keep him in the Harper fold with a good buy for his new novel, an untitled stand-alone set in the author's native Montana. It's about a carpenter in a remote corner of the state whose discovery of the mutilated corpses of two horses involves him in a standoff with a newcomer trying to start up a classy horse farm. Conaway signed the North American rights deal with
Jennifer Rudolph Walsh at William Morris, who has already made a deal with Universal TV for the Carroll Monks books.
