Winner of the 1999 St. Martin's Press/ PWA Award for Best First Private Eye Novel
When we meet private detective Duncan Sloan he's just handed back a five thousand-dollar check meant as advance payment on a job. The wealthy prospective client ...
Jimmy Cotton narrates "tall tales" of his partner, Joe Ready, a 98-year-old former cop and kidnaper-hunter, on his deathbed, including run-ins with the twentieth century's notorious bad guys and some unfinished business....
Sipping his second cup of coffee of the day, Duncan Sloan picks up the phone. It's not the kind of call that anyone wants to receive. On the other end of the line is county cop Mose Booker letting Sloan know that a phone with his number on it was fou...