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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New. Trade Paperback Oversize trade paperback, fine. 1st, thus. A masterpiece of lurid menace from the underbelly of the South. On his first day working for Cochrane's carny, Thaxton found that his new boss was married to his ex-wife. On the second day he found his boss's body--with one of May's throwing knives planted firmly in its chest. With its impeccably rendered carnival setting and its delirously crooked array of spielers, luc-boys, and dancing girls with indecent hips and sub-zero hearts, it is crime fiction at its most devious and pungent.
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