{"product_id":"9781943402298","title":"Hard Bite","description":"The hit-and-run driver took everything-his wife, child and legs. Now a paraplegic, Dean Drayhart unleashes payback on suspected hit-and-runners in Los Angeles with helper-monkey Sid as his deadly assistant. \u003cp\u003eDean's gentle, doting nurse knows nothing about what he's up to and when Sid tears out the throat of a Mexican Mafia member, Marcie is kidnapped in order to force Dean's surrender. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArmed with nothing but his wits, Sid, and a sympathetic streetwalker named Cinda, Dean manipulates drug-cartel carnales and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in a David-against-Goliath plot that twists and turns to a heart-pounding finale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHARD BITE is ideal reading for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for HARD BITE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...outlandish in every way-a crazed noir excursion into an unprecedented heart of darkness. Violent and sometimes funny, always entertaining.\" \u003cbr\u003e- T. Jefferson Parker, three-time Edgar Award winner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The best, most fiercely original crime novel I've read in a long time\" \u003cbr\u003e-Ray Garton, World Horror Grand Master Award recipient\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A carnival of nightmarish fun, HARD BITE had me gasping from one outlandishly terrifying act to the next, each scene involving The Grim Reaper in a wheelchair; a sharp-fanged, treacherous monkey; a SWAT-team posse of drugged Mexican killers; and\/or more tough-but-lovable women with guns than a Mickey Spillane novel.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Jack Getze, Fiction Editor, Spinetingler Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By the end, your heart aches a little for the narrator. That's the true goal of fiction, or it ought to be-to shift you on your foundations in the reading, leaving you off in a slightly different place from where you started.\" \u003cbr\u003e- Sophie Littlefield, A Bad Day For Sorry, A Bad Day For Pretty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The ride is electric...quality that other writers should aspire to achieve.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Joseph Patchen for Lurid Lit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Nasty, but a beating heart underneath ...very clever; lovely writing.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Patti Abbott, Derringer Award winner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anonymous-9 is one of my favorite crime writers.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Nick Mamatas, Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild awards nominee\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Down \u0026 Out Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051157733616,"sku":"9781943402298","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781943402298_p0.jpg?v=1763786245","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781943402298","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}