Wire to Wire

ISBN:
9781935639053
Pub Date:
05/24/2011
List Price:
$15.95
Page Count:
375
ISBN:
9781935639060
Pub Date:
06/01/2011
List Price:
$15.95
Page Count:
375

With its cast of train-hopping, drug-dealing, glue-huffing lowlifes, Scott Sparling’s debut–an homage to the American crime novel–chronicles the lives of damaged people doing their meager best and often finding the worst.

Wire to Wire assembles a cast of train-hopping, drug-dealing, glue-huffing lowlifes, in a stunning homage to one of our most popular enduring genres—the American crime novel.

While riding a freight car through Detroit, Michael Slater suffers a near-fatal accident—a power line to the head. After a questionable recovery and a broken relationship, he abandons his new home in the Arizona desert, though not before leaving a man for dead. Slater returns to Michigan in a busted-up Ford to reunite with an old train-hopping pal, but quickly discovers that the Pleasant Peninsula of his youth is none too pleasant. As Slater’s past catches up with his present—a love triangle, a local drug dealer, the damaged residents of a destitute Northern Michigan town—rock bottom keeps slipping farther away.

Three years later, Slater sits in a dark video-editing suite, popping speed like penny candy, attempting to reconcile himself with the unfilmed memories that haunt his screens and his conscience.

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