Dodgers

(Paperback)

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When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys leave the only home they ve ever known in a nondescript blue van, with a roll of cash, a map and a gun they shouldn t have. Along the way, the country surprises East. The blood on his hands isn't the blood he expects. And he reaches places where only he can decide which way to go - or which person to become.

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Dodgers does not disappoint and marks the coming of a master storyteller -- Matt Bates (WH Smith Travel) * The Bookseller *
A masterpiece * Michael Redhill *
This is - quite simply - one of the best books I've read in a VERY long time. My hat's off to Bill Beverly for this tremendous achievement -- Don Winslow, author of The Cartel
Bill Beverly has crafted a piece of work that is nothing short of masterful... The book took my breath away -- Dirk Robertson * Criminal Element *
Violent, insightful and beautifully written -- Paul Connelly * Metro *

Author Bio

Bill Beverly was born and grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He studied literature and writing at Oberlin College, including time in London studying theatre and the Industrial Revolution. He then studied fiction and pursued a Ph.D. in American literature at the University of Florida. His research on criminal fugitives and the stories surrounding them became the book On the Lam: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America. He now teaches American literature and writing at Trinity University in Washington D.C. and lives with his wife, the poet and writer Deborah Ager, and their daughter Olive, in Hyattsville, Maryland. He collects beer cans. Dodgers is his debut novel.