Unexpectedly losing a crucial poker game, ex-cop Joe Crow is forced to pay his marker by identifying a drug-addicted stockbroker's wife's lover before the man's enemies murder him. Reprint.

Unenthusiastically accepting a job as a bodyguard for an unsavory plastic surgeon, ex-cop Joe Crow soon learns that his employer has vicious enemies and is swept into a web of deadly big game hunting. Reprint.

Seventy-three-year-old ex-poker player Axel Speeter plays a final winner-take-all hand with a pair of crooks who are after the $260,000 he keeps squirreled away in his room at Motel 6. Reprint. Tour.

Directed by a family friend who wants him to investigate his daughter's fiancé, ex-cop Joe Crow finds himself caught in the middle of a conflict between the would-be groom and the man's murderous cult. Reprint.

Barbaraannette Quinn loved her husband, Bobby, right up until the day he got in his truck,left their home in Cold Rock, Minnesota, and never returned. She has waited six years for him to walk back through her door, and now that she has hit the Powerball lottery, she's willing to give a million dollars to anyone who can make that happen. Bobby and his girlfriend, Phlox, decide that she will turn him in, collect the million bucks, and then they'll both hightail it back to Arizona to live happily ever after. Unfortunately, everybody wants a piece of Bobby—including a pair of hulking good ole boys, who figure Bobby owes them, and a sociopathic pretty boy freshout of St. Cloud Correctional, who notices that Barbaraannette's offer doesn't require that Bobby arrive alive. Toss in a shy marathon-running banker, a lovestruck humanities professor, and Barbaraannette's kleptomaniac mother, and things start getting a little hot in Cold Rock. "I've really started something, haven't I?" Barbaraannette says. What she has started is a crackpot criminal conspiracy in Pete Hautman's funniest novel yet.