The Man With Two Last Names

It seemed like an easy enough job, which is why former cop and marginal private detective, Lyman Henry, agreed to take it: find the person who killed the son of respected Phoenix businessman, Williams Smoot, the man with two last names.There was only one trifling problem. The confessed murderer was already in jail. But Henry figured he’d simply work around that niggling quandary. Business wasn’t exactly booming and he needed the $10,000 that Williams Smoot agreed to pay him for a few days’ work.Besides, hunger never saw bad bread. It didn’t take long, however, for Henry to realize that things were not entirely, or even slightly, what they appeared to be at first glance. His investigation into Freddie Smoot’s murderrapidly deteriorates into a quagmire of treachery, deceit, and abominable criminality. A detective thriller brimming with arresting characters and startling plot twists, readers will not easily put aside the extraordinary ‘The Man With Two Last Names.’

Waldrip received a bachelor's degree in education from Northern Arizona University and a law degree from the University of Arizona. At various times in his adult life, he has worked as a school teacher, door-to-door salesman, ditch digger, radio talk show host, and attorney. Waldrip is widely traveled throughout Central and South America, Europe, and Africa. Aside from his novels, his previous scribblings appeared in the anthologies "Eldritch Tales" and "Writers of the Desert Sage." Henry James is his favorite novelist. A native of Arizona, WF Waldrip's father died when he was five. He and his older siblings were raised by a single mother whose formal education ended with the eighth grade, largely by working as a cook and barmaid. The resulting uncertain income necessitated that Waldrip's family relocate frequently, including to Young, Show Low, and Payson, Arizona.