"Unsparing, brutal, and strangely beautiful." Allison Glasgow, editor at ThugLit From the California high desert to a Texas prison yard, from Ozarks dive bars to the shadows of Hollywood, these stories burst with gutter grandeur and criminal mythology. Harper burns through prison-tatted flesh to expose his characters’ hardened, scarred but still beating hearts. And he does it with a virtuoso prose style that mixes pulp panache and literary flare into pure nitroglycerin. “A harrowing, hallowing ode to those whose options boil down to a bullet, a bank or a strange stretch of highway. American Letters has found in Harper an agent worthy to take the crime fiction tradition into the 21st century.” – Hardboiled Wonderland "I've never read a Jordan Harper story that didn't leave me shaking my head at what an immense, immense talent he is. And I'm saying this with the guy still owing me sixteen bucks." - Todd Robinson author of The Hard Bounce.