Cold in July
โ Scribed by Lansdale, Joe R
- Book ID
- 108130069
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 855 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781784081959
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Night. You wake suddenly.
Someone's in your house. Is your family safe? You stumble from bed, You must investigate.
If you had a gun, would you take it? If your life was threatened, would you use it?
Richard Dane, face-to-face with an armed intruder, does. With one shot he takes a man's life and changes his own forever.
The police say it is a clear-cut case of self-defence - the deceased is a no-account ex-con wanted by the law. No one blames Richard... except the dead man's father who, hell-bent on revenge, sets his sights on Richard's own four-year-old son.
As father is pitted against father, both men are inexorably drawn into dangerous territory as small-town secrets peal away to reveal a vile conspiracy that will threaten to devour them both.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Richard Dane shoots and kills a gun-wielding burglar in his living room. It's clearly a case of self-defense, but the dead man's father, Ben Russel, doesn't see it that way. Russel wants to extract Old Testament-style justice: an eye-for-an-eye, a son-for-a-son. Straightforward menace takes a 90-deg