The Deputy

About this book

Coyote Crossing is a dusty little shthole town in western Oklahoma. A sleepy little pit stop for truckers not a lot going on. So a dead body in the middle of the street at midnight is quite an event. The chief of police wants all hands on deck so he calls Toby Sawyer to come babysit the body. Toby doesnt have a lot going for him. Twenty-five a couple of years of junior college married to a girl he got pregnant and living in a trailer on the edge of town. Hes working part time for the police department hoping the budget comes through and they can put him on full time so he can get health benefits. His wife is a waitress at a little crap diner near the railroad tracks. When he gets the call about the dead body he pins his tin star to his Weezer t-shirt slips into a pair of sweatpants and grabs his revolver. Victor Gischler is the author of five novels including Gun Monkeys Shotgun Opera and Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse. "solid noir from Gischler."-Publishers Weekly "Make no mistake: this sht is just as fast and funny as what weve come to expect from the man who gave us such classics as Pistol Poets and Shotgun Opera; its just that this time out it hurts more the characters dig under a couple more layers of your skin. The Deputy is Victor Gischlers finest book to date and you better fcking believe thats fcking saying something."-BSC Reviews