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    Hard Bite
    Hard Bite
    Hard Bite
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    Hard Bite

    By Anonymous-9

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    The hit-and-run driver took everything — his wife, child and legs. Now a paraplegic, Dean Drayhart unleashes payback on suspected hit-and-runners in Los Angeles with helper-monkey Sid as his deadly assistant.

    Dean’s gentle, doting nurse knows nothing about what he’s up to and when Sid tears out the throat of a Mexican Mafia member, Marcie is kidnapped in order to force Dean’s surrender.

    Armed with nothing but his wits, Sid, and a sympathetic streetwalker named Cinda, Dean manipulates drug-cartel carnales and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in a David-against-Goliath plot that twists and turns to a heart-pounding finale.

    HARD BITE is ideal reading for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey.

    Praise for HARD BITE ...

    “...outlandish in every way — a crazed noir excursion into an unprecedented heart of darkness. Violent and sometimes funny, always entertaining.” —T. Jefferson Parker, three-time Edgar Award winner

    “The best, most fiercely original crime novel I’ve read in a long time” —Ray Garton, World Horror Grand Master Award recipient

    “A carnival of nightmarish fun, HARD BITE had me gasping from one outlandishly terrifying act to the next, each scene involving The Grim Reaper in a wheelchair; a sharp-fanged, treacherous monkey; a SWAT-team posse of drugged Mexican killers; and/or more tough-but-lovable women with guns than a Mickey Spillane novel.” —Jack Getze, Fiction Editor, Spinetingler Magazine

    “By the end, your heart aches a little for the narrator. That’s the true goal of fiction, or it ought to be — to shift you on your foundations in the reading, leaving you off in a slightly different place from where you started.” —Sophie Littlefield, A Bad Day For Sorry, A Bad Day For Pretty

    “The ride is electric ... quality that other writers should aspire to achieve.” —Joseph Patchen for Lurid Lit

    “Nasty, but a beating heart underneath ...very clever; lovely writing.” —Patti Abbott, Derringer Award winner

    “Anonymous-9 is one of my favorite crime writers.” —Nick Mamatas, Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards nominee

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDown & Out Books
    Release dateJan 12, 2017
    ISBN9781370597406
    Hard Bite
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    Anonymous-9

    Hardboiled mystery writer Anonymous-9 (Elaine Ash) writes in Los Angeles, parties in Texas, and traces her DNA back to Vikings in Scotland. She has deals with three publishers and is proud to self publish on Smashwords. Her bestselling HARD BITE series is digitally produced by Blasted Heath (Scotland) and trade paperbacks are published by New Pulp Press and Down & Out Books (USA). A-9 was listed in the Top 5 Novels of 2013 by BOOKPEOPLE/MYSTERYPEOPLE independent bookstores and she won a Readers' Choice Award 2013 from The House of Crime and Mystery (Canada) . Her short stories have earned a Thriller Award nomination by an ITW judging panel, Spinetingler Magazine's Best Short Story on the Web 2009, another nomination for the same award in 2010, and two Derringer nominations. Uncanny Books has commissioned her to write a novelette titled DREAMING DEEP which tributes H.P. Lovecraft, a founding faher or modern American horror. Coming in 2015. Find out more at www.anonymous-9.com.

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