Wild Town
Language: English
20th Century American Novel And Short Story Crime & Thriller Crime & mystery Detective Detective and Mystery Stories Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Hard-Boiled Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled Police Procedural Political Suspense Women Sleuths
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: Jan 4, 1993
Description:
SUMMARY: The place is a frontier boom town where the graft gets collected more regularly than the trash. The hero is Bugs McKenna, slow-witted, hot-tempered man with manslaughter in his past and much worse in his immediate future. The much worse begins the moment McKenna gets promoted from ex-con to hotel detective without bothering to ask why. Because inWild Townnobody does you any favors--and the price of advancement is always a little higher than what you can afford.