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    By Preston Lang

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    Ana Luz is a wily Iraq War vet, getting by working at a laundromat and doing the occasional favor for a neighborhood drug dealer called Espada. Her mysterious boyfriend Cyril convinces her to rip off Espada and sell the product to one of Cyril’s old friends out in Iowa.

    But the old friend isn’t as reliable as he once was, and rather than a clean sale, Cyril and Ana Luz are forced to help move the drugs out west. But the customers are dangerous, the law is suspicious, and Espada doesn’t appreciate being ripped off by a woman who fixing dryers for a living.

    The result is a high-speed chase from the tenements of upper Manhattan to the flat heart of America. Ana Luz and Cyril find themselves pursued by corn-fed hustlers, Dominican gangsters, and some suspicious small-town cops. The couple will need all their cunning and muscle just to make one simple drug deal and come out alive.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShotgun Honey
    Release dateApr 12, 2019
    ISBN9780463868904
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    Preston Lang

    Preston Lang has published three novels to date. His short fiction has appeared in Thuglit, Spinetingler, Near to the Knuckle, and WebMD. He lives and works in New York.

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