Moses McGuire isdepressed, hard drinking, ex-con, and ex-military, and he’s on the edge ofsuicide. When he gets an urgent phone call from the one woman in the world heconsiders his only true friend, Kelly, a waitress at Club Xtasy in East L.A.,the "titty bar" where Moses works as a doorman, Mo puts all thoughtsof doing himself in on the back burner.
Kelly is in somekind of trouble and needs Mo's help. But Mo, being as damaged as he is, andtrying hard to overcompensate by playing pseudo daddy-hero to the women at thestrip club he sees as lost little girls, bungles the one time that his heroismreally matters. Instead of running straight to Kelly when he realizes she's notat the club, he stalls, has a few drinks and allows one of the other dancers togive him a quickie lap dance.
By the time hegets there, he finds that he’s too late. She’s been brutally tortured beforebeing murdered. Moses manages to pull his self together and decides to trackdown the scumbags responsible for killing her. He sells his motorcycle, buys anold Crown Victoria, and a goes on a road trip - a no holds barred, take noprisoners, kill em' all, rampage.
Did I like it?
Lemme give you ahell yeah! Loved it. This excellent stuff, right out of the top drawer. It’shard to believe that Josh Stallings hasn’t been picked up by one of the majorpublishers. He writes like a dream, his action is tense and unpredictable andhis characters utterly convincing.
This is visceralstuff, not for the faint of heart and an indication of the talent that themainstream publishing houses are losing out on while digital grows in strength.
Fans of noirfiction take note. Josh Stallings is one to watch out for and he deserves ahuge audience. Get yourself onto to his site and buy a copy of his book. Like, NOW.£2.83 for a kindle copy is ridiculously cheap. What you waiting for? Get over therealready.
Josh Stallings isyour average ex-criminal, ex-taxi driver, ex-club bouncer, film making, scriptwriting, award winning trailer editing, punk. Over his time inHollywood he wrote and edited the feature film “The Ice Runner,” aRussian/American co-production. “Kinda Cute for a White-Boy” an independentfeature he directed and co-wrote with novelist Tad Williams, won best pictureat the Savanah International Film Festival. He also wrote “Ground Zero Texas,”a best selling Sony video game with Edward Neumeier (writer of RoboCop). His first novel BEAUTIFUL, NAKED & DEAD is garnering great notice fromreaders and reviewers alike. OUT THERE BAD (Moses #2) will bepublished early summer. He is currently working on the third MosesMcGuire novel. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Erika, hisbullmastiff Nelson, Lucy the lab pit mix and Riddle the cat.
You can read more about Josh Stallings at hiswebsite HERE!!!
