Bookbub Special on The Animals After Midnight June 2nd-6th 1.99

The last ride for veteran tat zappers Darby and Delia. I’ve often thought of where they’d go from here. Like them, I tattooed in a street shop in a shit part of town through the Crack Epidemic, The Skinhead Years, The Rise of Meth, and of course the formation of the I-5 Cocaine Cherry Corridor. Those were dangerous times, but who cares, fuck it its over now, etc. But where in the world do you send two hard hitting jockeys with heads full of that life? In the theoretical Lucky Number Zero, a standalone novel, Darby and Delia are uncertain of their legal status and living in a trailer just outside Ruidoso. Naturally, all they see is a world of crime. Citizens go about their Walmart lives but the undercurrent seems to glow in broad daylight. That’s a magnificent place to start. High powered radar for scumbag detection and no reason to use it. But it just keeps pinging, all day, all night, seven days a week. Something will eventually pop.

A cheap ass end of the global quarantine read! Enjoy! And stay tuned for updates on my latest novel Sweetwater Junction, first in the Northwestern Rounder Trilogy.

“This is a really good book full of bad people you’ll sorely miss as soon as you’re not reading about them anymore. Get started and you’ll get over it sooner.” — Thomas Perry, New York Times bestselling author of Nightlife.

“There is one Portland, Oregon that is marked by polite, gentrified civility, and then there’s its fever-dream, noir-drenched opposite, a dimension reached by walking out the back door of the Lucky Supreme, the Old Town tattoo parlor dreamed up by Jeff Johnson and overseen by master tattist Darby Holland, another mind-altering creation of Johnson’s.  In this universe, the good guys come from the side-show tents, the bad guys have escaped from the cages, and the mayhem is managed by a ringmaster with a surgeon’s touch and a comic’s timing.  Bravo.”—Les Standiford, NYT best-selling author of Last Train To Paradise

“The Animals After Midnight is the literary equivalent of Quentin Tarantino directing a season of Portlandia with the spirit of Charles Bukowski consulting.”—Dave Zeltserman, author of Small Crimes and Husk.

“Elmore Leonard fans should be pleased.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“More please.” –MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE

PS! Awesome cover by Gigi Little