Tom Piccirilli's The Fever Kill
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- retro trade paperback
- introduction by Ken Bruen
- direct order copies are signed by the author (full-color signature sheet)
- 224 pages
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“[Tom Piccirilli's] prose has the visceral punch of the best pulp writers of the past century....”
Eddie Muller, San Francisco Chronicle
Crease is going back to his quaint, quiet hometown of Hangtree. It's where his father the sheriff met ruin in the face of a scandal involving the death of a kidnapped little girl and her missing ransom. It's where Crease was beaten, jailed, and kicked clear of the town line ten years earlier.
Now Crease is back. He's been undercover for so long that most days he feels more like a mobster than a cop. He doesn't mind much; the corrupt life is easier to stomach than a wife who can't understand him, a son who hates him, and a half-dozen adopted kids he can't even name anymore. He's also just gotten his drug-dealing, knife-wielding, psycho boss Tucco's mistress pregnant.
A fine time to decide to settle old scores and resolve a decade-old mystery.
With Tucco hot on his tail, Crease has to find his answers fast. Who kidnapped little Mary? Who really killed her? Was his own father guilty? And what happened to the paltry fifteen grand ransom that seems to spell salvation to half the population of Hangtree? The town still has a taste for his blood and secrets it wants to keep. Crease has a single hope: a raw and raging fever driving him toward the truth that might just burn him up along the way...
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“It's the rare crime novel that pulsates with the nightmare intensity of The Fever Kill. Piccirilli pulls it off masterfully.”
Charles Ardai, Editor of Hard Case Crime
“The gritty narration, graphic violence and pulp gravitas should make fans of Jim Thompson and Charlie Huston feel right at home.”
Kirkus Reviews
“A wondrous blazing talent... Intense and astonishing!”
From the introduction by Ken Bruen
From the acclaimed author of Headstone City, The Midnight Road and The Cold Spot comes a white-knuckle novel of lust, betrayal, corruption, greed and, with any luck, redemption. So many sins laced with salvation could only be brought to you by the Big Easy's favorite new genre publisher, Creeping Hemlock Press.
About the Author
Tom Piccirilli lives in Colorado where, besides writing, he spends an inordinate amount of time watching trash cult films and reading Gold Medal classic noir and hardboiled novels. He's the author of seventeen novels including The Coldest Mile, The Cold Spot, The Midnight Road, The Dead Letters, and A Choir of Ill Children. Tom is a winner of the International Thriller Writers Award, a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a final nominee for the World Fantasy Award and the Mystery Writers of America Award. To learn more, check out his official website, Epitaphs, at tompiccirilli.com.
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