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Dove Season
A dying man might ask for anything: forgiveness, a compassionate ear, a cold glass of water. Jimmy Veeder's father asked him for a Mexican prostitute. The NEW EDITION of the cult crime classic with a foreword by the legendary Christa Faust. Twelve years have passed since Jimmy Veeder set foot in the Imperial Valley of southern California. The only person who could bring him back to the border town is his father, Big Jack, who is dying of cancer.
Jimmy is prepared to spend Jack's final days joking and reminiscing, but the old man has other plans. He needs Jimmy to cross the border into Mexico and find a prostitute named Yolanda. It's a strange final request, but Jimmy's not one to argue with a dying man. With his erratic-at-best childhood buddy Bobby Maves, Jimmy heads south, looking for Yolanda among the violent and exploited in the bars and neighborhoods of Mexicali.
Their search leads them to Tomás Morales, a rising star in the Mexican underworld. While dangerous to most, his childhood friendship with Jimmy brings out his loyalty and spurs him to help. But just when Jimmy thinks his quest has ended, he's sucked further into the violence and danger of the border. In his fight for survival and search for truth, what he uncovers calls into question everything he thought he knew about his father-and will determine just what kind of man he is. Praise for Dove Season"[Johnny Shaw] is excellent at creating a sense of place with a few deft strokes.He moves effortlessly between dark comedy and moments that pack a real emotional punch, and he's got a knack for off-kilter characters who are completely at home in their own personal corners of oddballdom." ?Tana French, author of In the Woods and Faithful Place"Johnny Shaw calls Dove Season a Jimmy Veeder Fiasco, but I call it a whole new ballgame; I enjoyed this damn book more than anything else I read this year!" ?Craig Johnson, author of The Cold Dish and Hell is Empty"Johnny Shaw's Dove Season may well be the best debut this year.
It has the warm wit of Lansdale's Hap and Leonard novels, the effortless cool of Elmore Leonard and just a sprinkling of Crumley's border dust. Here's to many more Jimmy Veeder fiascoes to come." ?Ray Banks author of Beast of Burden"Dove Season is dark and funny, graceful and profane, with beating-heart characters and a setting as vivid as a scorpion sting on a dusty wrist. Debut author Johnny Shaw is a welcome new voice.
I'm already looking forward to Jimmy Veeder's next fiasco." ?Sean Doolittle author of The Cleanup and Safer
Jimmy is prepared to spend Jack's final days joking and reminiscing, but the old man has other plans. He needs Jimmy to cross the border into Mexico and find a prostitute named Yolanda. It's a strange final request, but Jimmy's not one to argue with a dying man. With his erratic-at-best childhood buddy Bobby Maves, Jimmy heads south, looking for Yolanda among the violent and exploited in the bars and neighborhoods of Mexicali.
Their search leads them to Tomás Morales, a rising star in the Mexican underworld. While dangerous to most, his childhood friendship with Jimmy brings out his loyalty and spurs him to help. But just when Jimmy thinks his quest has ended, he's sucked further into the violence and danger of the border. In his fight for survival and search for truth, what he uncovers calls into question everything he thought he knew about his father-and will determine just what kind of man he is. Praise for Dove Season"[Johnny Shaw] is excellent at creating a sense of place with a few deft strokes.He moves effortlessly between dark comedy and moments that pack a real emotional punch, and he's got a knack for off-kilter characters who are completely at home in their own personal corners of oddballdom." ?Tana French, author of In the Woods and Faithful Place"Johnny Shaw calls Dove Season a Jimmy Veeder Fiasco, but I call it a whole new ballgame; I enjoyed this damn book more than anything else I read this year!" ?Craig Johnson, author of The Cold Dish and Hell is Empty"Johnny Shaw's Dove Season may well be the best debut this year.
It has the warm wit of Lansdale's Hap and Leonard novels, the effortless cool of Elmore Leonard and just a sprinkling of Crumley's border dust. Here's to many more Jimmy Veeder fiascoes to come." ?Ray Banks author of Beast of Burden"Dove Season is dark and funny, graceful and profane, with beating-heart characters and a setting as vivid as a scorpion sting on a dusty wrist. Debut author Johnny Shaw is a welcome new voice.
I'm already looking forward to Jimmy Veeder's next fiasco." ?Sean Doolittle author of The Cleanup and Safer
