Doug Swanson is the author of five crime novels and two non-fiction books. His first novel, Big Town, won the John Creasey Award from the British Crime Writers Association and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best first novel. Swanson was for many years a reporter and editor at the Dallas Morning News. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing and was a Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University. He currently teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
The uproarious fifth and final Jack Flippo adventure, a “hard-boiled novel at its grittiest and most unsentimental.” Booklist
A lawyer arrested in a small town for his part in a drug deal gone horribly, violently wrong asks his old buddy Jack to clear his name. To do that, Jack will have to find his friend’s missing wife Angelique, who is lost at sea…and who had an affair with Jack years ago. And he’ll have to stay one step ahead of a shady DEA agent-turned-comedian, a relentless female reporter desperate for a big story, and a ruthless killer who is leaving a trail of corpses.