Today is publication day for Two Black Bean and Shrimp Quesadillas and a Pink Ruger LCP by Joseph S. Walker. This is the latest installment of Season Four of the Guns + Tacos series edited by Trey R. Barker and SMFS list member Michael Bracken. Published by Down and Out Books, the read is available at the publisher, Amazon, and elsewhere.
Publisher Synopsis:
Alvin Bleeker has a ratty apartment, a rusted-out car,
and a dead-end job, managing a big-box store barely clinging to life. He also
has a compulsive gambling habit that’s put him tens of thousands of dollars in
the hole to Lamar, the bookie and loan shark rarely seen without his brutal
enforcer, Jimmy. Alvin can’t bring himself to worry too much about his debts,
though. He’s just marking time, waiting for his rich Aunt Elaine to kick off
and leave her only living relative with a fortune that will end all his
problems forever.
Unfortunately, Aunt Elaine has other plans, leaving
Alvin out of her will almost entirely. Even worse, Lamar knows it. He extorts
Alvin into Plan B: stealing a priceless Picasso sketch from Aunt Elaine’s North
Shore mansion. Naturally, Jimmy will come along for the ride. So will Brittany
Orozco, who has the face of a cheerleader, the heart of a killer, and the
sharpened icepick of a sociopath. Behind Brittany is Lamar’s boss, the shadowy
mob chieftain who doesn’t care how many bodies have to drop if he can add the
sketch to his collection.
Alvin is in way over his head, but it should be a
simple enough job, in and out in ten minutes. He’s just playing it safe when he
goes to the taco truck to buy some insurance, in the form of the first gun he’s
ever owned—a gun which, to his dismay, turns out to be pink. He’s betting he
won’t really need it.
It’s one more bet he’s going to lose.
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