Gun Work

by David J. Schow

Overview

POINT AND SHOOT.

Life isn't always cheap south of the border -- some lives are worth a million dollars. That’s what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter’s wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he’d saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some… call for gun work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857687678
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	05/11/2011
Series:	Hard Case Crime
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	569,698
File size:	508 KB

About the Author

David J. Schow is an American Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels, short stories, and screenplays, including The Crow and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Most of Schow’s fiction work falls into the sub-genre ‘splatterpunk’, a term he is sometimes credited with coining.

Editorial Reviews

Genre hopping seems to suit horror writer Schow (Havoc Swims Jaded) as he lets out all the stops in this high-caliber action story. It's no exaggeration to say that Barney has a more intimate relationship with guns than he does with any human, living or dead. That's why Mexicans call him el hombre de las armas, the gunman. It's also why old army buddy Carl Ledbetter drags him into a messy situation when Carl's fiancée, Erica, is kidnapped in Mexico City. At the prearranged money drop things start to go awry, and eventually a badly beaten, mutilated, shotup and half-starved Barney emerges, determined to get revenge on the kidnappers and anyone else who gets in his way. This is a gory, fast-paced pulp tour de force in the classic style. (Nov.)

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