Yellow Medicine

Deputy Billy Lafitte is not unfamiliar with the law; he just prefers to enforce it rather than abide by it. But his rule-bending and bribe-taking have gotten him kicked off the force in Gulfport Mississippi and hes been given a second chance...in the desolate Siberian wastelands of rural Minnesota. Now Billys only got the local girls and local booze to keep him company. Until one of the local girls-cute little Drew bassist for a psychobilly band-asks Billy for help with her boyfriend. Something about the drugs Ians been selling some product he may have lost and the men who are threatening him because of it. Billy agrees to look into it and before long hes speeding down a snowy road tracking a cell of terrorists with a severed head in his trucks cab. And thats only the start... Praise for YELLOW MEDICINE: On my list of the most original voices in crime fiction today Anthony Neil Smith easily makes it into the top five. Yellow Medicine is a terrific read a crime noir bullet-train ride on unsafe tracks.-Scott Wolven author of Controlled BurnYellow Medicine gets its hooks into you from its first turbulent pages. It is the novels complicated captivating hero Deputy Billy Lafitte who holds you from beginning to end. Hes a liar a cheat and a pretty bad guy but so richly rendered that before you know it you find yourself following him through the darkest of terrains and eagerly.-Megan Abbott author of the Edgar-nominated QueenpinYellow Medicine starts with one of the most memorable and engaging anti-heroes in recent memory. Mix in bent cops a psychobilly band called Elvis Antichrist meth cookers in the Minnesota sticks and a truly nasty pack of wannabe jihadists. Add a liberal helping of guns knives and explosives. Youre gonna love it.-J.D. Rhoades author of A Good Day in Hell and Safe and SoundAnthony Neil Smith has taken the stark freezing landscape of rural Minnesota and brought it to life with an injection of Louisiana Hot Sauce in the form of Deputy Billy Lafitte. A violent bawdy thrilling edgy gut-churning masterpiece.-Victor Gischler author of Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse Pistol Poets and the Edgar-nominated Gun MonkeysSmith deserves credit for taking a risk by creating a character like Lafitte whose private code of honor-if any-is far more obscure than an anti-hero like Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer.- Publishers WeeklyAll in all though Smith has a powerful voice and delivers quite a romp offering along the way a sort of Tony Hillerman glimpse into a part of the country that is not often the subject of crime fiction.-Steve Glassman Booklist