Countdown

Welcome to California. Weed is legal. Grow it. Sell it. Smoke it. Eat it. But the money you make off it--theres the rub. Bank it and the Feds will ask questions. Keep it around and youll get robbed. LaDon and Jessie--two hustlers who make selling primo weed a regular gig--hire a private security detail to move and hold their money. Ex-soldiers Glanson and Echo target the cash--they start a ripoff business. Its the wild wild west. Except this time everybodys high. With their guns and guts Glanson and Echo dont expect much trouble from a mean son-of-a-gun like LaDon Charles. But thats exactly what they get. In this industry no matter how much money there is for the taking--and no matter who gets it--theres always somebody counting backwards...to zero. From acclaimed pulp writer Matt Phillips Countdown is a head-spinning hit of Southern Californias lucrative and not-quite-regulated marijuana industry. Praise for COUNTDOWN: A slab of rare pulp served nice and bloody. Countdown reads like an homage to Elmore Leonard from one of the hottest new voices on the crime fiction scene. --Anthony Neil Smith author of Yellow Medicine and All the Young Warriors Praise for the Books by Matt Phillips Matt Phillips speaks fluently the language of the dispossessed... His whiskey-soaked prose can at times be as slick as a man slinging snake-oil and other times as brutal as a baseball bat to the head. --Eryk Pruitt author of Hashtag and Dirtbags Phillips writing is so multi-layered and deep... An author to watch out for. --Regular Guy Reading Noir