Debut novel, arriving early 2027
When Anselm Croteau takes a job guarding a dead man's remote Nevada ranch, all he wants is a paycheck and some solitude. Instead, he finds himself face to face with the deceased’s small-time-crook sons, and with a front-row seat to a family feud years in the making. Meanwhile Avery and Blithe Bailey — identical twins, cross-country arsonists, and unlikely allies — are blazing a trail of vigilante justice from New Jersey toward San Francisco with homemade firebombs and zero regrets, leaving a wake of burned men and burned bridges from Ohio to Utah. When their last stop before the coast puts them in the dusty town of Trephine, a spark between Anselm and Blithe turns a local grudge into something bigger, meaner, and far more combustible. Running alongside it all: the pulp-noir misadventures of hardboiled detective Hank Diesel, chasing a missing Hollywood starlet through his own shadowy underworld in a story-within-the-story that mirrors and refracts the violence unfolding around Anselm, the Moodys, and the Bailey twins.
No comments:
Post a Comment