Pile your hair high, shine your leather jacket, pop the switchblade, and turn on the devil's music Get ready to roar down the desolate American highway with eight tales of hoods, hot rods, and hellcats "The 1950s are recreated one more time, but here it's with a savage, razor-honed edge you'll never find in Grease, Happy Days, or American Graffiti," from the introduction by the legendary Mick Farren. Hoods, Hot Rods, and Hellcats features brand new fiction from Eric Beetner, Chad Eagleton, Christopher Grant, Matthew Funk, David James Keaton, Nik Korpon, Heath Lowrance, and Thomas Pluck.
Pile your hair high, shine your leather jacket, pop the switchblade, and turn on the devil's music Get ready to roar down the desolate American highw...
Kansas City, 1939. In a world of fixed fights and mob influence Ray Ward and his brother Rex are two of the only clean fighters in town. With Ray in the corner and Rex in the ring they are headed for the big time. Until that fateful night. Now Ray has a score to settle using a lifetime of lessons in how to fight back. Dean Fokoli is a detective with a new partner, an alcoholic wife and a guilty conscience. At least the boxer on the radio who just got beat to a pulp won't end up in his homicide file. But when the dregs of the crooked fight world start turning up dead, Fokoli is on the hunt for...
Kansas City, 1939. In a world of fixed fights and mob influence Ray Ward and his brother Rex are two of the only clean fighters in town. With Ray in t...
Hollywood, 1941 Ray Ward spends his nights thinking about his brother's death and the blood-soaked days that followed. Dean Fokoli is off the force, disgraced by his dirty dealings, left to scrape for pennies as a private eye. When Ray receives a mysterious package from his sister containing a plea for help and a reel of 8mm film, there's a problem - Ray doesn't have a sister. Now two former enemies must team up, travel halfway across the country to search the dark shadow of Hollywood's spotlight. In for more than they bargained for, Ray and Fokoli plunge behind the silver screen to unearth...
Hollywood, 1941 Ray Ward spends his nights thinking about his brother's death and the blood-soaked days that followed. Dean Fokoli is off the force, d...
The Lawyer should have heeded the ominous signs: a forest fire raging in the distance and the undertaker's wagon carrying away two knife-stabbed bodies. But he's a man obsessed, methodically hunting down the gang members who murdered his family, and Big Jim Kimbrough, his latest target, isn't far from the hell-blazing inferno. In a surprise turn, Kimbrough gets the jump on The Lawyer and leaves him for dead; though fortune is in his corner when a trio of frontier women find him and nurse him back to health. It's not long before Kimbrough learns The Lawyer is still alive. Desperate to rub out...
The Lawyer should have heeded the ominous signs: a forest fire raging in the distance and the undertaker's wagon carrying away two knife-stabbed bodie...