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In a driving sleet storm, a farmer has discovered a body snagged on cottonwood roots in the Washita River. Johnston County deputy Hannah Bond realizes it's her elderly friend, Alice. Meanwhile, at the Golden Play Casino, robbers posing as armored-car guards kill a local stickball hero and friend of Chickasaw Lighthorse Police detective Bill Maytubby. The trail leads through the quarry-scarred Oklahoma badlands to a remote airstrip and a planeload of drugs and untraceable automatic weapons. Also somehow connected are a shady coin-op vending company; a neo-Nazi compound outside Paris, Texas; and a headless janitor in a train-mangled van. As the net tightens, the smugglers get wind of their pursuers and converge on Maytubby and Bond at Greasy Bend Bridge.
About the Author
Kris Lackey's 2017 debut crime novel Nail's Crossing, from Blackstone Publishing, was a USA Today bestseller. The sequel, Greasy Bend, appeared from Blackstone in July, 2019. Books 3 and 4 of the Maytubby-Bond series will be issued by Blackstone in 2021 and 2023. He is a fan of Cather, Simenon, McCarthy, and Henry James. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
