Pimp for the Dead

<b>Dennis wrote with assurance. His prose was muscular swift and highly readable. Joe R. Lansdale from his introduction </B><p>Jim Hardman was an Atlanta cop until he was wrongly accused of corruption and thrown off the force. Now he works as an unlicensed PI trouble-shooter and bodyguard...often partnered with his drinking buddy Hump Evans a black ex-NFL player who supports his playboy lifestyle by working as hired muscle. A small-town farmer hires Hardman to find his teenage daughter who ran off to Atlanta to become a model...and ended up a hooker. It's fast work for Hardman but she's gunned down minutes after he finds her. To hunt her killer Hardman and Hump Evans take a deep dive into a bottomless cesspool of vice and greed that could drown them. <p>This new edition includes an introduction by Joe R. Lansdale author of the Hap & Leonard novels and an afterword by Paul Bishop author and retired LAPD homicide detective.<p><p><b>Praise for the HARDMAN novels by Ralph Dennis:</b><p>Ralph Dennis is an underappreciated master. His Hardman series is one of the finest in the P.I. genre. Robert Randisi founder of the Private Eye Writers of America<p> Among the best series books around. <i>Philadelphia Daily News</i><p>Expert writing plus good plotting and an unusual degree of sensitivity. <i>New York Times</i>