Gun Work - Softcover

Schow, David J.

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ISBN 10: 0857683268 ISBN 13: 9780857683267

Publisher: Hard Case Crime, 2011

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POINT AND SHOOT.

Life isn't always cheap south of the border -- some lives are worth a million dollars. That’s what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter’s wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he’d saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some... call for gun work.

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About the Author:

David J. Schow is an American Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels, short stories, and screenplays, including The Crow and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Most of Schow’s fiction work falls into the sub-genre ‘splatterpunk’, a term he is sometimes credited with coining.

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Barney, a gunman, moves “between the spaces of the ordinary world of people,” limiting his physical and emotional exposure. But when Carl, an Iraq war buddy, calls him for help—Carl’s fianc�e has been kidnapped in Mexico City—Barney ignores his better judgment to go play hero. Events turn ass-over-teakettle wrong, and Barney wants revenge. Fortunately, it’s nothing a little surgical modification, highly modified weaponry, and a few bullet-happy buddies can’t fix. Schow, a versatile novelist (Havoc Swims Jaded, 2006) and screenwriter (The Crow, 1994), eschews his usual splatterpunk for a pulpy bulletfest that, while not horror, still features plenty of splatter. A double-crossing dame haunts the book, but this is really all about the guys and their guns. Barney leads his crew on a revenge mission that is one part Peckinpah, one part A-Team, and two barrels of triple-aught buckshot. But Barney is no Mack Bolan. Schow’s craftsmanlike prose propels a plot that follows its own peculiar rhythms. Readers who like the smell of cordite in the morning will want to pull the trigger on this purchase. --Keir Graff

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