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The Ploughmen
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SOLVED. Recent American crime novel: an elderly contract killer considers retiring. He lives alone, in someplace like Texas or Arizona. A deputy sheriff who is struggling with a corrupt boss sets out to bring the old killer to justice. Spoiler ahead. [s]
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Published 2016/17. Writer is middle-aged white American male who attended Iowa Workshop or similar place. This is his debut novel. It opens with a shooting in open country (near a riverbed) and burying the body by an ageing professional killer and his accomplice who later cannot keep himself from spending his fee in a spectacular way (drugs, strippers). This angers the old killer who is looking to see out his last days in peace. A recently divorced/separated sheriff is tasked with bringing the old killer to justice.
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also: the office of the sheriff is small and there's bad blood between the sheriff and the (main character) deputy. The elderly killer reminisces at times about his wife - SPOILER - turns out she's buried in the yard and he might have killed her
Vivid opening scene: elderly killer and his young sidekick execute another man, shot in head out by a desolate dry river bed. The sidekick is raw and untested and irritating to the old man who is a consummate professional when it comes to contract killing.
After they get paid, the sidekick makes too much fuss in nearby town, spending his fee on drugs and strippers.
Still hoping someone who reads crime fiction, or Western fiction, or contemporary American fiction or new US writers, or... can help me out here!
YES SOLVED it's The Ploughmen by Kim J. Zupan
