Thank you, Caterina von Catherine, for tipping us off to this rather cool cover. This is a thriller that takes place in the former Soviet Union in 1953, during the last years of Stalin's regime. At a time when "murder" as a concept did not exist in the Soviet lexicon, only "enemies of the state", a detective investigates the murder of a child. I love the incorporation of the geometric red shape to the sparse, graphic photograph. The red shape could be the slope of a snowy hill against a red sky or a guillotine. I also can't help thinking this cover reminds me of a box of Marlboros. In a good way. From Barnes & Noble: Tom Rob Smith is a screenwriter and novelist whose literary debut, 2008's Child 44, inspired an intense bidding war at the London Book Fair. The well-received thriller was subsequently optioned by film director Ridley Scott.
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The other day I came upon this book which, as fas as I can remember, is the book that started my passion for covers...
http://a1055.g.akamai.net/f/1055/1401/5h/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/9870000/9878214.jpg
What about you?
OK, who designed American Psycho? Was it Chip Kidd? Evan Gaffney? Michael Ian Kaye? Who?
The design is by The Lloyd Ziff Design Group. So I guess we will call him the anonymous designer ;-)
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