2018 Spur Award Winner for Best First Novel
2018 Spur Award Winner for Best Contemporary Western
True West Magazine’s Best Western Crime Novel of the Year
After fastball phenom Prospero Stark’s baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher’s severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend’s fate, a dangerous pursuit that pits them against a ruthless gang of drug-dealing killers.
- ISBN13 9780997832341
- Publish Date 20 June 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Brash Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English