Unfortunately, his latest shipment contained some illegal automatic weapons. With a truckload of untaxed cigarettes, all he has to do is cross the state border and unload his cargo. When he forges a reluctant alliance with his wife’s new lover, he realizes there’s lots of money to be made from smuggling cigarettes. Then came the divorce … and the alimony and child support and extra rent. Life was so much simpler for our marijuana-selling narrator when all he had to worry about was keeping his customers, wife, and daughter satisfied. Before the last shot is fired, everything they thought was certain proves to be a shadow and everything they trusted opens into a trap. cops to play out a deadly obsession that takes them from back alley payoffs to hard time in prison, then deep into the tunnel networks south of the border to a murderous town that’s only rumored to exist. Synopsis … Thump Gun Hitched by Ross Klavan.

In its eleventh year as an independent publisher of award-winning literary and crime fiction, Down & Out Books ( ) is based in Tampa, Florida.TRIPLE SHOT by Ross Klavan, Tim O’Mara, and Charles Salzbergīuy from the Down & Out Bookstore or from the following retailers … This is the third collaboration for these authors in this series of crime novellas, following TRIPLE SHOT published in 2016 and THREE STRIKES published in 2018. Months after America's entry into World War II, a young reporter uncovers that the recently disbanded German-American Bund might still be active and is planning a number of dangerous actions on American soil. After smuggling cigarettes, maple syrup, and coffee, Aggie discovers a much more sinister plot to exploit what some consider a precious commodity: the trafficking of under-aged children for the purposes of sex. The man is in deep trouble and it's clear somebody is going to pay with his life.īeaned by Tim O'Mara. A crooked reporter who fronts for the mob and who's been married eight times gets a visit from his oldest friend, a disgraced and defrocked shrink.

27, 2020 - PRLog - Down & Out Books is pleased to announce that THIRD DEGREE: Three Crime Novellas by Ross Klavan, Tim O'Mara and Charles Salzberg will be published on Octoin trade paperback and ebook formats.Ĭut Loose All Those Who Drag You Down by Ross Klavan.

Triple Shot by Ross Klavan