Whatever Kills the Pain

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In this gritty collection of crime stories Derringer Award-winning author C.W. Blackwell mourns an America lost to the shadows exploring a broken economic system that has given rise to rampant inequality violence and darkness.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Crackling with energy emotional depth and unflinching violence and filled with characters desperate to reclaim what has been unjustly taken plotting the heist of a lifetime or grappling with chance encounters that might free them from the bonds of wage exploitation-or send them to early graves Blackwell fearlessly documents an America sick with greed and hate.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nearly everyone has an angle a fight or a spark of hope yet some have learned there isn't a cure for every ill and that sometimes the best medicine is whatever kills the pain.</span></p>