<p><strong>Love is dangerous. Desire is deadly. Revenge is loaded.</strong><br><br><strong>Love like a Loaded Gun</strong> is a hardboiled noir thriller about obsession betrayal and the kind of love that leaves a trail of bodies behind.<br><br>Fresh out of a maximum-security prison after ten brutal years <strong>Michael Sampson</strong> just wants a beer a job and a chance to write again. Instead he falls hard for <strong>April</strong> a married barmaid with a haunted past an angel-shaped scar she won't explain and a much older husband who's as cruel as he is dangerous.<br><br>As Michael struggles to rebuild his life passion turns to fixation and love turns lethal. Old wounds reopen. Old enemies resurface. And when revenge comes calling Michael arms himself with a typewriter a bottle of whiskey and a loaded pawn-shop revolver that may decide everyone's fate.<br><br>Written in the gritty tradition of <strong>Jim Thompson James M. Cain and classic pulp noir</strong> <em>Love like a Loaded Gun</em> is a raw fast-paced crime novel packed with sex violence moral ambiguity and fatal attraction.<br><br><strong>When love pulls the trigger no one walks away clean. Nab your thrilling copy now. </strong><br><br>Vincent Zandri is one of the most acclaimed thriller writers working today! --Publishers Weekly<br><br>Zandri (is) a veteran wordsmith who executes quality and quantity at superlative levels. --Book Reporter</p>