FROM THE AUTHOR WHO BROUGHT YOU THE PULSE-POUNDING DEACON CHALK SERIES!!!!Updated with 2 all-new stories!Culvert City, a place where bad people do bad things to each other. A hard place, a tough place, it's Killtown USA, Fist City, MurdervilleAmerica, whatever you want to call it. Culvert City doesn't have a "badside" of town, every square inch of the place is strychnine nasty andterminal as cancer.Crime bosses, crooked cops, hitmen, ladies of the night, thugs,petty thieves, junkies, dirty politicians, gun thugs . . . every badseed of every rotten apple lives here.Good people who live here too.They're called victims.This is Crime fiction done right. Hard as concrete and twice as cold. Eight hard-boiled yarns of wrong-doing.