Gun Up — Scott S. Phillips

When heavyweight jack-of-all-trades Boone Butters decides to put aside his usual work mending chicken coops and toaster ovens to take a job tracking down a man, he and his new roommate Shandi find themselves on a wild path that leads them from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the smelly shores of the Salton Sea in California and deep into the underbelly of the adult film industry of Los Angeles. Along the way, they come up against shotgun-wielding, lawnmower-riding oddballs, vengeful drug dealers, temperamental porn producers and a manipulative ladies' man. The pay is good but the bullets are worrisome as Boone and Shandi find themselves in over their heads and caught in the crossfire.

“Scott's narrative blasts and rattles down the road, chasing rabbits and stray chickens out of its path while his dialogue sprays the countryside like full-automatic fire.” -- Victor Milan, author of The Dinosaur Lords