White Knight and Other Pawns
2018
First Published
4.16
Average Rating
186
Number of Pages
Some men only know how to do hard things the hard way! The battered women who drifted into the District Attorney’s office all haunted him with the same, hard-bought “I want to drop the charges.” Every bruised face and split lip reminded the assistant D.A. of the violent home he’d escaped and how little he could do to prevent others’ suffering at the hands and fists of the same kind of monster who’d raised him. But when Marisol Pierce appeared with an image of her son and a hint that she was willing to take a step away from the man abusing her, the prosecutor made a promise he knew he couldn’t keep. A promise that could cost him everything. Bracken MacLeod’s novella, “White Knight,” appears back in print, for the first time together with several of his acclaimed crime and suspense stories written for Shotgun Honey, Beat to a Pulp, and Shock Totem, along with an interview with the author and brand new story notes. WHITE KNIGHT AND OTHER PAWNS is a tour through noir, hardboiled, and even an EC Comics-inspired “SuspenStory” – This is crime writing the way only Bracken MacLeod does it.
Avg Rating
4.16
Number of Ratings
25
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Author
Bracken MacLeod
Author · 14 books
Bracken MacLeod has worked as a martial arts teacher, a university philosophy instructor, for a children's non-profit, and as a trial attorney. His short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including LampLight, ThugLit, and Splatterpunk and has been collected in 13 VIEWS OF THE SUICIDE WOODS by ChiZine Publications. He is the author of MOUNTAIN HOME, a novella titled WHITE KNIGHT, and STRANDED, from Tor Books. His newest novel, COME TO DUST, is coming from Journalstone/Trepidatio Press in June of 2017. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and son, where he is at work on his next novel.
