The intensity and violence never let up in this virtuoso performance from one of crime fiction’s most searing writers. Roman Carruthers is a successful Atlanta money manager who returns to his drug-gang-infested hometown to tend to his comatose father. His subsequent entanglement with the terrifying Black Baron Boys, ostensibly to save his screwup of a younger brother, is an ironic tragedy worthy of Shakespeare.
Ron Currie serves up a big batch of sticky issues in this vivid chronicle of a drug business run by a Franco-American grandmother named Babs Dionne in the depressed town of Waterville, Maine. When her control of her empire is threatened, Babs unleashes hell as only she can, channeling her fury into retribution as part of a left-behind minority, assisted by her crew of sozzled neighborhood ladies. An ambitious, exhilarating accomplishment by Currie.
