The Baddest Ass

Billy Lafitte former Deputy-Sheriff and motorcycle gang enforcer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. For some of his enemies thats still not enough punishment. Agents Colleen Hartle and Franklin Rome want Lafitte dead so bad theyve put a price on his head - eighteen grand to the first prisoner who takes him out. Gang leader RiChess and Head Prison Guard Garner want to collect and they dont mind who gets run over while they try - like inmate Bryce West a pawn for whoever hurts him the most. Lafittes church-going ex-mother-in-law believes in redemption... for everyone except Billy perhaps. But she still believes a son has a right to see the truth about his father so she brings his boy Ham for what she expects to be their final visit. When they all converge on a half-finished prison on the North Dakota prairie during a blizzard something bad is bound to happen. The third chapter of the Billy Lafitte saga (following Yellow Medicine and Hogdoggin) tests the limits of everyone whose life revolves around this man and all his deeds. Hes a shadow of his former self but he still fights to survive if only for spite. Sometimes being the baddest ass of them all isnt worth it. Praise for THE BADDEST ASS: Its gonna get bad up in here and its gonna get sad and its gonna get just plain nasty. Right now this sits at the top of my Best Thrillers of 2013. -Les Edgerton author of The Rapist The Genuine Imitation Plastic Kidnapping and others There are going to be the hardcore crowd who fucking love it and there are going to be people who will never buy Smiths stuff again...I think its a tremendous novel the kind of book that would never be published by NY one of those nasty little underground books that people hold onto with both hands. -Ray Banks author of the Cal Innes novels and the Farrell & Cobb books