On a desolate country road in rural West Tennessee early one morning in 1993, a young male motorist was hijacked, robbed and slaughtered by three local people, one a young woman. This book, written by a news reporter who covered every facet of the case, details that terrible crime.

A man on the lam from both federal authorities and the mob takes up residence in a small remote village, where he soon learns that many of the residents are vampires. In fact, his closest neighbor and the leader of the vampires locally becomes his best friend, in a relationship wherein they can be of great assistance to one another. Enter a female vampire who craves power and the warm body of a human male and is willing do anything to achieve her goals . As might be expected, things do not end well for her enemies.

Space Captain Hiram Kramer blazes his way across the known universe, making love to exotic, other-worldly women and battling crazed aliens set on destroying him. Along the way, he encounters all manner of interesting beings and accumulates quite a bit of "quat" -- or does he? Read it and see.

Propped back in his chair watching the rain fall into the darkness, Floyd glanced up at Mattie's window on the second floor of the building across the street. He wondered if she was asleep, or by herself. Probably by herself, because most of the cowhands about didn't want to spent what it cost to have a woman for the whole night. And she was kind of picky, too. Just having the money wasn't enough with her sometimes. Floyd Gundersen felt his age on this rainy night. His joints ached and his heartbeat thudded in his head. He had forty-one hard years on him, a right smart for a marshal in his...