Front sight : three Swagger novellas
(Book)

Three novellas by the same author in one volume.

City of Meat — Charles Swagger is on the hunt for Baby Face Nelson when a tip takes him to the Chicago stockyards. There, a brutal assault leads him to suspect the presence of a narcotics ring with plans to spread a dangerous new drug through the slums. Will Charles be able to stop it before it kills dozen? Or is he in over his head on Chicago's dark streets?

Johnny Tuesday — Earl Swagger investigates a violent bank robbery which left two dead and a fortune missing in a small tobacco town in Maryland. At every turn, however, he's met with silence and hostility from the townsfolk, which makes sense when he uncovers municipal corruption, working-class exploitation, gang politics, jaded aristocrats, scheming gamblers, a hitman, a femme fatale, and a whole bunch of men with guns. Luckily, Earl has brought his own guns.

Five Dolls for the Gut Hook — Bob Lee Swagger is back from Vietnam, nearly broken over good men lost for nothing. He's turned hard down the whiskey road. But one afternoon, he's awakened from his nightmares by two men with a horror-movie problem. A butcher has begun to prey on the city's young women. Hot Springs Homicide is baffled. Bob insists he's a sniper, not a detective. But he is the son and grandson of two of the greatest detectives the South has ever produced. On that premise alone, Bob joins the search. Using his sniper's mind, Swagger is able to see things others have missed, drawing ever closer to a showdown while hunting his own salvation.

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