After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny Earl gets busted for selling cocaine. After serving seven years in prison, all he wants to do is return to his hometown of Steubenville, retrieve the drug money he stashed before he went to jail, and start a new life where no one has ever heard of Johnny Earl. However, before he can leave town with his money, Johnny is picked up for questioning in the murder of Rayce Daubner, the FBI informant who had set him up on drug charges in the first place. Then his former prison cellmate shows up—a white supremacist who wants the drug money to help fund an Aryan nation in the wilds of Idaho. Five memorable characters, each with a separate agenda, come together in this layered tale of murder, deceit, and political intrigue.
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Robin Yocum is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including A Brilliant Death, which was a finalist for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, among other awards. He is well known for his work as a crime and investigative reporter with the Columbus Dispatch from 1980 to 1991, during which he received more than thirty local, state, and national journalism awards in categories ranging from investigative reporting to feature writing. He is the president of Yocum Communications, a public relations and marketing firm in Westerville, Ohio.
Adam Verner is a stage, film, television, and voice actor and an Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. He holds a BS in theater arts from Bradley University and an MFA from Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.