Stray Dogs

Ridley, John

ISBN 10: 0345413458 / ISBN 13: 9780345413451

Published by NY: Ballantine Books, 1997 0, 1997

About this Item

An Unread Copy, As New/As New Dust Jacket. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. An excellent debut novel from the screenwriter and author of Love is a Racket and Nobody Smokes in Hell. John Stewart's 64' Mustang breaks a radiator hose in the middle of the Nevada desert: "Through the shimmering heat and plume of steam that rose up from under the Mustang's hood, the gas station looked like a mirage." So begins this dark humored noir mystery in the tradition of Jim Thompson. A thrilling debut novel that was turned into the Oliver Stone movie "U-Turn" (starring Sean Penn, and Nick Nolte, among others.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stray Dogs
• Publisher: NY: Ballantine Books, 1997 0
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345413458
• ISBN 13: 9780345413451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Author R
  • Mystery

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Synopsis

"It's the heat that makes you crazy. I don't know what it is, but it works that way for man and animal alike. I've seen some peculiar things on a hot day too. I've seen a scorpion sting itself to death. It just keeps drivin' its tail into its body again and again. A little killer killing itself. And what a man'll do on a hot day. A man could get his self killed just for rubbing shoulders with another. . . ."

A loner, a drifter, a gambler--John Stewart asks little of life. But when his '64 Mustang busts a radiator hose in the middle of the empty Nevada desert, he prays to God, Buddha, L. Ron. And rolls into the tiny town of Sierra. Where he finds . . . nothing. A gas station whose former owner is lying low in the cemetery. A strip of barren, dust-blown store fronts. A truck stop cafe with more flies than customers.

Stewart wants out. Sucker-punched in a rigged poker game, he's got to get to Vegas to settle a debt. Or else.

Then in walks Grace, a seductive knockout who can read fortunes in faces. In the next twenty-four hours, Stewart becomes ensnared in a web of dirty double-crosses, cold propositions, and desperate souls--deadly ground where murder is just one gasp away.

A stunning, fast-paced novel, Stray Dogs unfolds with unrelenting tension, memorable characters, and shocking twists of plot. John Ridley has created a hypnotic story that is pure noir, from its first page until its shattering climax.

About the Author

John Ridley wrote and directed the feature film, Cold Around the Heart. He lives in Los Angeles where he is currently working on his next novel.