The Switchblade Svengali

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the bell tolls midnight it'll be 1968.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Royce Pembrook is living well in a new city with new patrons a new name and a new trade. But he's the same scam artist he's been for thirty years. Since youth Royce has made his money and found trouble in fraudulent séances that prey on the grieving widows of high society. Now he's expanded his con posing as a hypnotist a Svengali swindling everyone in Phoenix from scions of old wealth to a UFO cult led by a heroin-addicted visionary.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Life is good. Royce has the luxury he craves. And that's when trouble out of the past creeps into his world. Even in the domain of fake spirits the relentless specter of murder is real and Royce's former life is one thing that won't stay in the grave.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the bell tolls midnight for Royce Pembrook will it be time to abscond? Or will he fight to keep all that he's gained no matter the violent cost to those around him?</span></p><p></p><h2><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What folks are saying...</span></h2><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the cornered lamb realizes he's always been a wolf ... -M.E. Proctor author of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Love You Till Tuesday</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a man out of time and control. Royce's facade is degrading and the violent man within is wrestling back control. A fascinating character study. -Adam Hulse author of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Below Economic Thresholds</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Coy Hall's </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>The Switchblade Svengali</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> captivates with a tale of long-con mediumship bludgeonings and a UFO cult! A precise meld of elegance and blood curdle. -Ilyn Welch author of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Bad Makes Bad</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Royce Pembrook is up to his old spook show tricks this time at the height of the 1960s counterculture movement. But the ghosts he conjures aren't the only things haunting these pages-his past has caught up to him too threatening to derail everything he's built since the harrowing events of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A Séance for Wicked King Death</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Vengeful women gullible marks and UFO cultists make this book impossible to put down. Coy Hall's </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Switchblade Svengali</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is so good I wouldn't be surprised if the dead crossed from the other side just to read it. -C.W. Blackwell author of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Hard Mountain Clay</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Very happy to report that this is a sequel that's even better than the first book. -Regan MacArthur author of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>One Lash to Kill</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>