Read an excerpt from upcoming novel 'Jimmy the Stick'

On Oct. 16 we're releasing Jimmy the Stick, a great hardboiled Prohibition-era novel by debut author Michael Mayo. Here's the synopsis: 

A gunman comes out of retirement to guard his former partner’s family

Jimmy Quinn was a gunman, bootlegger, and bagman, running with mobsters the likes of Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll, until a bullet in the leg and the murder of Arnold Rothstein ended his career. Quinn bought a speakeasy in downtown Manhattan and settled into a quiet retirement—until the day he learns that famous aviator Charles Lindbergh’s baby has been kidnapped, and his old friend and partner Walter Spencer wants a word.

Spence has left his criminal past behind, marrying into the Pennyweight family—of Pennyweight Petroleum—and settling into a legitimate lifestyle in rural New Jersey. Now Spence has business out of state, and with the Lindbergh kidnapping weighing on his mind, he wants Quinn to stay in his home and protect his family. A few days guarding Spence’s beautiful wife should be easy work, but Quinn’s old business is about to catch up with him, and he quickly finds that the Garden State can be even more dangerous than the streets of New York City.

It'll be available in both print and eBook formats (you can pre-order them from Amazon--here's the eBook and here's the paperback).

In the mean time, you can read an excerpt from the novel at this link. There's also a piece up at LitReactor, from the editor who did the content edit of the book--you can read that here. 

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