Song of the Viper

by Barry Hicks

For the average man there is no such thing as easy money. Stafford should have known better when he accepted an offer to drive a Hollywood film producer and his beautiful but feisty wife from New York to Los Angeles for a fee of $10,000. Why did a routine job have so many hidden agendas? What dark secrets were his passengers concealing? Little by little the truth unravels as he propels his charges in a headlong chase across the United States one step ahead of professional killers. Ill equipped to deal with such things, violence, murder and sexual degradation enter Stafford’s life—and he has to face the grisly horrors of Apache Springs. But the greatest danger comes when he least expects it and from a completely unforeseen source. It is now that Stafford’s newly found resourcefulness chooses to desert him….

225 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2005