Henry "Hank" Thompson's got a good thing going—a hut on a quiet Mexican beach, morning swims, a nice breakfast place a few miles down shore … until a backpacker with a Russian accent shows up and starts asking questions about his past. Questions Hank doesn't want to deal with. And then the backpacker mentions the money … and Hank's parents. So Hank makes a fateful move … because no one threatens Hank's family. Now Thompson is on the run—dodging federales and Russian mobsters, sneaking past the US Border Patrol, negotiating with nefarious businessmen, and trying desperately to avoid dying at the hands of two hell-bent surfer bums who fancy themselves his allies. The result is a full-throttle thriller, a cinematic adventure full of booze, bullets, loyalty, and love.
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“Six Bad Things is so good, in part, because Huston manages to make
it horrific, hilarious, and hip. If Huston’s literary godfathers include
Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard, they also include Hunter S. Thompson, who
would have appreciated the speed freaks, crank heads, gun nuts, Russian
mobsters, greedy federales, and assorted geeks and psychos who populate these
pages…This crazed, wildly readable adventure works because Huston writes with
such delicious, deadpan verve and because Hank, his self-described mad-dog
killer, is such an appealing, totally cool dude.”
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Washington Post