{"product_id":"9781946502247","title":"Yellow Medicine","description":"Deputy Billy Lafitte is not unfamiliar with the law; he just prefers to enforce it, rather than abide by it. But his rule-bending and bribe-taking have gotten him kicked off the force in Gulfport, Mississippi, and he's been given a second chance...in the desolate, Siberian wastelands of rural Minnesota. Now Billy's only got the local girls and local booze to keep him company. \u003cp\u003eUntil one of the local girls-cute little Drew, bassist for a psychobilly band-asks Billy for help with her boyfriend. Something about the drugs Ian's been selling, some product he may have lost, and the men who are threatening him because of it. Billy agrees to look into it, and before long he's speeding down a snowy road, tracking a cell of terrorists, with a severed head in his truck's cab. And that's only the start... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for YELLOW MEDICINE: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"On my list of the most original voices in crime fiction today, Anthony Neil Smith easily makes it into the top five. \u003ci\u003eYellow Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrific read, a crime noir bullet-train ride on unsafe tracks.\"-Scott Wolven, author of \u003ci\u003eControlled Burn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eYellow Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e gets its hooks into you from its first turbulent pages. It is the novel's complicated, captivating hero, Deputy Billy Lafitte, who holds you from beginning to end. He's a liar, a cheat and a pretty bad guy, but so richly rendered that, before you know it, you find yourself following him through the darkest of terrains, and eagerly.\"-Megan Abbott, author of the Edgar-nominated \u003ci\u003eQueenpin\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eYellow Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e starts with one of the most memorable and engaging anti-heroes in recent memory. Mix in bent cops, a psychobilly band called Elvis Antichrist, meth cookers in the Minnesota sticks, and a truly nasty pack of wannabe jihadists. Add a liberal helping of guns, knives and explosives. You're gonna love it.\"-J.D. Rhoades, author of \u003ci\u003eA Good Day in Hell\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSafe and Sound\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anthony Neil Smith has taken the stark, freezing landscape of rural Minnesota and brought it to life with an injection of Louisiana Hot Sauce in the form of Deputy Billy Lafitte. A violent, bawdy, thrilling, edgy, gut-churning masterpiece.\"-Victor Gischler, author of \u003ci\u003eGo Go Girls of the Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePistol Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Edgar-nominated \u003ci\u003eGun Monkeys\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Smith deserves credit for taking a risk by creating a character like Lafitte, whose private code of honor-if any-is far more obscure than an anti-hero like Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.\"- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"All in all, though, Smith has a powerful voice and delivers quite a romp, offering along the way a sort of Tony Hillerman glimpse into a part of the country that is not often the subject of crime fiction.\"-Steve Glassman, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Down \u0026 Out Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049401139440,"sku":"9781946502247","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781946502247_p0.jpg?v=1763809032","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781946502247","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}