John Rector gets 3-book deal in UK!

From Bookbrunch:

Francesca Main, Commissioning Editor at Simon & Schuster, has negotiated a three-book UK and Commonwealth deal for American noir writer John Rector. The agent is Allan Guthrie at Jenny Brown Associates.

John's debut The Cold Kiss is a noir-thriller about a young couple who pick up a money-flashing hitchhiker during a blizzard and end up snowed in and fighting for their lives at a rural roadside motel. It's been described as The Getaway meets A Simple Plan and will publish from Tor Books in summer of 2010.