Bøker av Philip Elliott

Winner: Best First Novel, CWC Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing"Screams cult classic" --BooklistEddie Vegas made a terrible mistake. Now he has to pay the price.After a botched debt collection turned double murder, Eddie splits, desperate to avoid his employer, notorious L.A. crime boss Saul Benedict, and his men (and Eddie's ex-partners), Floyd and Sawyer, as well as the police. Soon he becomes entangled with the clever and beautiful Dakota, a Native American woman fresh in the City of Angels to find her missing friend--someone Eddie might know something about. Meanwhile in Texas, ex-assassin Rufus, seeking vengeance for his murdered brother, takes up his beloved daggers one final time and begins the long drive to L.A. When the bodies begin to mount, Detective Alison Lockley's hunt for the killer becomes increasingly urgent.As paths cross, confusion ensues, and no one's entirely sure who's after who. But one thing is clear: They're not all getting out of this alive.

A darkly comic hardboiled mystery novel set in LA during the years 1998-2000 and follow-up to Nobody Move which won Best First Novel in the Arthur Ellis Awards and was described by Booklist as "screams cult classic."