Joe Ready's all but had it. He's ninety-eight, he's in a hospital and he's so horizontal he could slide off the face of the earth at any moment. Joe's not so horizontal he doesn't want to hear their story from his younger partner, Jimmy Cotton. A living eulogy, a wake, whatever - Jimmy tells it.
Jimmy starts with his lucky low draft-lottery number and watching a kid standing next to him get a National Guard bullet through the brain at Kent State. The coincidence of events lands him at his Mom's condo in West Palm looking to escape the same something that all the drifting and lost souls in the seventies were looking to escape - instead, he found Joe Ready. Through a haze of reefer smoke, bumps of coke, and the occasional murder going on around them, Joe takes Jimmy on a narrative journey through the 1930s and Joe's career as a hunter of kidnappers. Then Joe jumps the game back to the late twenties and a particularly horrendous kidnapping. This final telling flings Jimmy into a denouement built of rage and well-aged revenge for a shocking conclusion.
Shamus Award winner Truluck seamlessly braids three eras, three voices and three styles then ties them off with a perfect bittersweet ending. This is pop noir, babies, this is Bob Truluck.
Bob
Genre: Mystery
Jimmy starts with his lucky low draft-lottery number and watching a kid standing next to him get a National Guard bullet through the brain at Kent State. The coincidence of events lands him at his Mom's condo in West Palm looking to escape the same something that all the drifting and lost souls in the seventies were looking to escape - instead, he found Joe Ready. Through a haze of reefer smoke, bumps of coke, and the occasional murder going on around them, Joe takes Jimmy on a narrative journey through the 1930s and Joe's career as a hunter of kidnappers. Then Joe jumps the game back to the late twenties and a particularly horrendous kidnapping. This final telling flings Jimmy into a denouement built of rage and well-aged revenge for a shocking conclusion.
Shamus Award winner Truluck seamlessly braids three eras, three voices and three styles then ties them off with a perfect bittersweet ending. This is pop noir, babies, this is Bob Truluck.
Bob
Genre: Mystery
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