A wealthy Tucson couple is murdered in a home invasion burglary-gone-horribly wrong. They were close friends of Prospero "Whip" Stark, a one-time major league phenom pitcher now living with a colorful group of outcasts in his remote, desert trailer park... and honing his detective skills reading classic crime novels. Hell-bent on justice, Whip's search for the killers leads him to the Champagne Cowboys, a gang of thieves covering their tracks with corpses.
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After fastball phenom Prospero Stark’s baseball career craters in a Mexican jail, he retreats to a trailer park in the scorching Arizona desert. He lives in peaceful anonymity with a collection of colorful outcasts until someone leaves his former catcher’s severed hand on his doorstep. Beautiful, hard-living reporter Roxanne Santa Cruz, who keeps a .380 Colt and a bottle of Chivas in her car, joins Stark to help him uncover his friend’s fate, a dangerous pursuit that pits them against a ruthless gang of drug-dealing killers.
Published by Brash Books
. . . . A rollicking page-turner.
- Phoef Sutton, Emmy Award-winning TV writer and New York Times bestselling author
. . . .classic crime in its best clothes. . . great writing line to line. . . .
- James Sallis, author of DRIVE
. . . . so good that it’s hard to believe it’s a debut novel.
- Bruce DeSilva, Edgar Award winning author
“… Banks is … on top of his game.”
– The Arizona Daily Star
. . . . a fast-driving thriller. Dusty and wicked and satisfying.
- Bill Beverly, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his 2016 novel, Dodgers
–Tucson Weekly
