Hogdoggin'

Former Deputy Billy Lafitte is a no-good grits-for-brains despicable and dangerous traitor Special Agent Franklin Rome is sure of it. So sure in fact that hes willing to investigate outside departmental bounds. Willing to blackmail and bribe his fellow lawmen into helping him. Willing to ferret Lafitte out of whatever snake-hole hes hidden himself in and do what the too-lax government wouldnt let him do back in Yellow Medicine county just months ago... And Romes plan is working. Squeeze a mans ex-wife especially an ex-wife as unstable as Ginny Lafitte and watch her overprotective man appear from thin air to stand by his family. No matter that Rome s had to bend a few rules in order to make it happen; Billys end will justify Romes means. Of course Rome didnt count on Billy riding in to save the day on a turquoise motorcycle with a beard fifty extra pounds of muscle and the weight of a man named Steel God at his back. Nor did he think Billy would go and get himself caught up with paint-huffing knife-wielding rednecks. And Rome certainly never predicted that a broken-hearted vengeful woman named Colleen would be just as hot for Lafitte s blood as he is... Praise for HOGDOGGIN: Smiths version of Minnesota is no Lake Wobegon; the inhabitants are refreshingly made up entirely of the deranged the damaged and the doomed. If you can picture the intellectual and physical mayhem that might have resulted from a Jim Thompson and Harry Crews collaboration youd be on the right track. But Anthony Neil Smith is his own writer-and a very fine one indeed. -BooklistThe books brutality is exemplified by the blood sport that provides the title which matches vicious dogs like Rottweilers against helpless pigs. Fans of darkest noir will be most satisfied. -Publishers WeeklyAnthony Neil Smith has long been one of the best of the up-and-coming hardcore crime writers; Hogdoggin marks his passage into the very front rank... -Scott Phillips author of The Ice HarvestSex drugs and rock and roll-kinky FBI agents steroid ridden bikers and enough musical terrorism to keep your head busy for some time; Anthony Neil Smiths Hogdoggin is like a killer song you cant get out of your head. -Craig Johnson author of the Longmire mystery series