The Slanted Gutter

<p><strong>Ricochet through the gutter in this gripping pull-no-punches thriller from S. Craig Zahler</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><em>He knows what you'll do - including what you'll sacrifice for protection.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Darren Tasking is an entrepreneur whose business is people and when it comes to people he specializes in risk pleasure and fear.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em>He knows what will break you - before you even feel a second of pain.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tasking has everything and everyone in his orbit under control. If there's something he wants he will alter your life until you yield to his wishes.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em>He knows what makes the Machos tick - and how to keep them in the dark.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The police tried to keep Tasking down with their macho modus operandi sent him away long ago. Now he's older uncommonly careful and keeps the machos oblivious to his enterprises. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em>He knows the streets of Great Crown Florida can only be dominated by the remorseless insights of a relentless slick like him.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The brothels and gambling parlors secreted behind iron doors keep the slick autonomous and successful but a new dancer named Erin Green proves to be the variable that could put him on a collision course with unrepentant sadists machos and a trap created by the slick's own extortionist machinations.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em>The Slanted Gutter</em> is a devastating character study painted with the darkest shades of noir penned by a hand as unflinching as Tasking's steely-eyed pursuit of his large dollar goal as unforgiving on the reader as those who seek retribution against the slick for his nocturnal misdeeds. <strong>Step into this gutter at your own risk.</strong></p><p><br></p>