Böcker av Jeff Houlahan

Einstein Flint is an ex-rodeo rider, born in Brooklyn and raised in every other borough in the city.¿ Now, he's banged-up, burnt out and back in NYC, bouncing at Boom Boom's. Dasha Bragin was smart, fearless and...remorseless as desert sun. But now she's dead and the cops are pretty sure Flint is their guy. ¿Flint and Dasha had been a couple before the cops found her body, damaged in ways that don't allow the next breath. When word on the street gets out that Flint had brought somebody into town to kill her, the police are even more certain they have their man.¿ Flint learns the street chatter is coming from people that Flint thought were his friends-he's not sure who he can trust or why he's being setup. Flint finds the first loose thread when Dasha's roommate, Mya, shows up at his door looking for help.¿ Dasha and Mya, had taken off a private, high stakes game for almost a million dollars and then left a trail of bread crumbs.¿ But they had picked the wrong game-these boys would kill you for insulting their sister.¿¿ Take their money? They would pull you apart, one thin layer at a time...until the only thing between you and dead was that wishes don't come true.¿ Einstein has to find a path to the real killers and take them down without becoming part of the body count. Boom Boom's Last Call is influenced by characters like James Sallis' Lew Griffin, Robert Crais's Elvis Cole and a young Dave Robicheaux-men who know that words like honor and duty have become a punch line...but they just don't get the joke.

Ryan Spencer won't get on a plane...and a major league ballplayer who won't get on a plane better hit .400, knock in one hundred and fifty runs and never chase the high cheese. So, it's fortunate that Ryan is a five-tool player. He can take one low and outside and turn it into two. He can jack a mistake, back-row bleachers, and cherry-pop quick. He can smother the short hop like an unwanted puppy and throw strikes from shallow leftfield. But he won't fly.So, like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Ted Williams before him, Ryan rides the rails from town to town. But as he travels across the continent he also travels back in time. The first time Ryan wakes on the train, he's in 1939, sitting beside thirteen-year-old Georgie Abbott who has snuck aboard and is looking for the man who murdered his sister. Ten days later, Ryan wakes between Denver and Kansas City, it's 1941, Georgie's two years older, more determined, and looking for help. More help than Ryan can give.Two weeks later, when Ryan falls asleep on the train from Montreal to New York City, the Expos are struggling, Ryan can't lay off the outside slider, and his teammates hate him. When he wakes up, Hiroshima is still smoldering, Richard Nixon is running for Congress, seven more girls have been murdered and Georgie Abbott won't take no for an answer. Georgie and Ryan spend seventy years and the rest of that summer tracking down the men who killed Georgie's sister and a dozen other young women. And in between Ryan and the Montreal Expos scramble after a wild-card spot and a shot at the big prize.Long Train Home, a literary thriller, owes something to WP Kinsella and Field of Dreams. It's about baseball, time's thin veil, and the weight of accumulated regret, but it's a new story and a new voice.