Junior's Leg

Fifteen years after he tormented fellow students at Catahoula Bayou School Junior Guidry is broke drunk one-legged and living in a wreck of a trailer on the edge of a snake-infested swamp. He's survived an oil-rig accident that would've killed most men but with the help of a good lawyer made him rich instead. But he's squandered his fortune on drink blackjack womanizing and brawling leaving a wake of wrecked cars and friendships not to mention lost or stolen wooden legs. Then the mysterious Iris Mary Parfait enters his life. She's on the run from a tragic childhood and a bad bad man. When news reaches Junior that a bar owner with Mob connections has posted a $100000 bounty on Iris's head because she knows too much about him Junior realizes he could regain his fortune—but at what cost? . Narrated in Junior's unvarnished voice Junior's Leg takes the reader on a singular journey through the mind of a troubled man. It is at turns unsettling ribald sexy and poignant—a bold stroke of storytelling that ultimately plumbs the possibilities of love and redemption even for as unlikely a candidate as Junior.