With an impeccably rendered carnival setting and magnificently crooked array of luck boys, spielers, dancing girls, and freaks, Alters offers fiction at its most devious and pungent. On his first day working at the carny, Thaxton learns his new boss is married to his ex-wife. On his second day, he finds his boss's body--with one of her throwing knives thrust into it.
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With an impeccably rendered carnival setting and magnificently crooked array of luck boys, spielers, dancing girls, and freaks, Alters offers fiction at its most devious and pungent. On his first day working at the carny, Thaxton learns his new boss is married to his ex-wife. On his second day, he finds his boss's body--with one of her throwing knives thrust into it.
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