β Scribed by Scott Phillips
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A hardboiled valentine to the Golden State,That Left Turn at Albuquerque marks the return of noir master Scott Phillips.
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** Douglas Rigby, attorney-at-law, is bankrupt. He's just sunk his last $200,000--a clandestine "loan" from his last remaining client, former bigshot TV exec Glenn Haskill--into a cocaine deal gone wrong. The lesson? Never trust anyone else with the dirty work.
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** Desperate to get back on top, Rigby formulates an art forgery scheme involving one of Glenn's priceless paintings, a victimless crime. But for Rigby to pull this one off, he'll need to negotiate a whole cast of players with their own agendas, including his wife, his mistress, an embittered art forger, Glenn's resentful nurse, and the man's money-hungry nephew. One misstep, and it all falls apart--will he be able to save his skin?
Written with hard-knock sensibility and wicked humor, Scott Phillips's newest novel will cement Phillips as one of...
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