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"Deft prose, wry observation, and a cleverly
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copyright 2007 by Harry Hunsicker |
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 release date: Aug. 2007 St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-34851-7 |
All he wanted was to be left alone, a chance at a normal existence away from the assorted creeps and lowlifes inherent to his former profession as a private investigator. Unfortunately peace and solitude are hard to find for one named Lee Oswald, a veteran of the first Gulf War, now weary after a decade as the fix-it man of last resort on the back streets Dallas. But when internationally-renowned medical researcher Anita Parvizian begs for his help in finding the person threatening her daughter’s life, Oswald reluctantly lets himself be pulled back into the shadowy world he’d tried to leave behind.
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 release date: July 2006 St. Martin's Press ISBN 0-312-34850-9
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When a bourbon-swilling Baptist preacher hires
private detective Lee Henry Oswald to recover a stolen file, Oswald
figures the job for a quick and painless infusion of cash. But nothing comes easily in Dallas for anybody named Oswald, especially when a psychopathic hit man shows up, intent on finding the same scrap of missing paper. With the police after him for a murder he didn't commit and his every move shadowed by the strange mobster, Hank Oswald gratefully accepts an extortion case in an effort to get out of town for a few pays. State Senator Vernon Black, the tree-hugging black sheep of an oil-rich East Texas family, has a problem. Somebody wants him to change his vote on an important environmental bill. If he refuses, Black's long-time friend and his entire family will be killed, one by one, starting with the oldest child, Senator Black's goddaughter, the head-strong Tess McPherson.
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SHAMUS AWARD NOMINEE
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FROM THE PUBLISHER:
A terrific first mystery featuring a hard-nosed Dallas detective with the unfortunate name of Lee Henry Oswald. Dallas's answer to Dennis Lehane. FROM THE BOOK JACKET: It's not easy being named Oswald, not in the city where Lee Harvey grabbed his fifteen minutes of infamy and choked it to death. It's especially hard when half the town seems determined to kill you for reasons as murky as the river that splits the city in two. For Lee Henry Oswald, a private investigator, Gulf War vet, and terminal loner, it's just one more burden to face as he trudges through the gritty underbelly of the concrete and glass metropolis that is Dallas in the new millennium. A simple assignment turns deadly when Oswald asks the right questions in the wrong places, and finds himself drawn into a shadowy world of smooth-talking drug lords and double-dealing real estate developers.
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 release date: May 2004 Middlefinger Press ISBN 0-972-65882-3 |
Featuring short fiction and essays from Steven
Church, Marshall Boswell, Tony Dushane, Tim Rogers, Marc Estrin, Murad Kalam and others, all proceeds from this anthology benefit research for
Parkinson's Disease. Edited by Harry Hunsicker and Will Clarke. Forward by Neal Pollack.
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 January 2004 Plots with Guns |
THE COLOR OF
HOME. This short story, best described as East Texas noir, was the
author's first publishing credit and appeared in the January 2004 issue of
the award-winning e-zine, Plots
With Guns.
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