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Helms crafts an engaging narrative with an old-school protagonist who embodies the classic detective ...A smart, twisty thriller featuring a clever detective and all the ingredients of a classic whodunit. -Kirkus Reviews A gripping tale of deception and greed...a smart, polished page-turner. Helms delivers a vivid, convincing portrait of a town in turmoil and an agent willing to do whatever it takes to secure a dose of hard-won justice.-Publishers Weekly BooklifeA thrilling new series from Silver Falchion, Derringer, Macavity, Thriller, and Shamus Awards Winning author Richard Helms!Forty-five years ago, in the tiny North Carolina Blue Ridge town of Choctaw, an innocent black man was gunned down by a local white police officer, spurring a race riot that made national headlines and scarred the town for years. Only an improbable storybook Super Bowl victory by local boy quarterback Winlock Savage rehabilitated Choctaw and saved it from ruin. Now, Winlock Savage has been murdered, his body discovered hanging from a hook inside a local barbeque shack's smokehouse. The police chief, understaffed and without a detective, asks the State Bureau of Investigation for help. They send their best - if most unconventional - investigator, Wade The Blade Durham. Durham's search for Savage's murderer tosses him up against a violent state patrolman, corrupt politicians, desperate ski resort developers, Nashville pop stars, backwoods meth cooks, and an enticing half-century old unsolved murder with far too many connections to Win Savage to be ignored.
