A Haven for the Damned (Black Gat Books) - Softcover

Whittington, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933586753 ISBN 13: 9781933586755

Publisher: Stark House Press, 2015

Synopsis

A group of eight people all converge on a small ghost town on the outskirts of the Mexican border, each with their own demons and dilemmas. They all want something they’ve lost: freedom, a lost wife, their youth. Not all of them will leave alive.

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From the Inside Flap:

The Yucca City National Bank has been robbed. A cashier, Matt Bishop, is accidentally shot by one of the guards and taken hostage. The robbers, Fletch and Poole, haven't been out of prison long, and they've got a lot to lose if they're caught. So they lam it into the hills with the wounded clerk, all the way to Lust, New Mexico, a ghost town near the Mexican border. Here they find Josh Carrdell, a solitary prospector and the only one left in Lust besides his mean-as-sin dog, George. But they are soon joined by Susan Bishop, hot on the trail of her husband; big man Harvey J. Duncan and his fiancée, Milly, who have taken a wrong turn in the mountains on the way to their new life together—and Reed, who just wants his wife Milly back. They all converge on Lust one dry, dusty afternoon. The bank robbers want safe passage to Mexico, and they'll kill anyone who gets in their way. Susan wants her husband back, and will barter what she has to get him. Duncan is looking for his lost youth, Reed for his lost wife. And Milly, she doesn't know what she wants, but any new thrill will do. It's going to be a busy night in Lust, in this haven for the damned.

About the Author:

Harry Whittington was born in Ocala, Florida, in 1915. When his family moved to a nearby farm, Harry survived his family’s rural poverty by reading books and sneaking into the local movie theater. Another escape was his writing. Ultimately the versatile Whittington would become known as “King of the Paperbacks,” publishing over 170 original paperback novels, using nearly 20 different names. Before his death in 1989, Whittington also carved out a second career writing Southern historical novels as Ashley Carter. Today he is best known for the lurid and brisk noir novels he wrote between 1950 and 1960.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stark House Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1933586753
• ISBN 13: 9781933586755
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 167