She gave him a choice for his $100,000 — her untamed young body or his own sudden death.
Joe Duncan is a man on the run with $100,000 in stolen cash from a Nevada casino. But he makes the mistake of picking up a seemingly desperate woman on the highway who has some dark secrets of her own. And her brother just happens to be the corrupt police chief of the small town that Duncan hopes to hide out in. Soon everybody wants Duncan’s stolen money… and they are willing to kill to get it.
“Gaulden keeps things moving along in the same sort of nice, hardboiled prose you find in his Westerns, and the plot has some clever twists in it. I enjoyed this book enough that I’m sorry Gaulden didn’t write more in the hardboiled crime genre.” Rough Edges
“This is pure pulp stuff and it’s a little on the trashy side but it has plenty of pure noir atmosphere and plenty of noir desperation. It has characters who are trapped animals, wanting to escape but not knowing which way to run. A fairly effective little noir potboiler. Highly recommended.” Vintage Pop Fictions
Ray Gaulden /
Crime Fiction
