The Cactus Jungle

Barry Graham's three hyperviolent, hypersexual novels of Southwestern noir brought together in one volume…HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR BLUE-EYED BOY? "Immensely entertaining. a helluva plot, and a wonderful twist."-Benjamin Whitmer, author of Pike and Cry FatherAndy Saunders knows how to survive. He survived all alone in Los Angeles as a teenager, and he survived in foreign combat zones as a soldier. He survived homelessness on the streets of Phoenix, Arizona, an unforgiving desert metropolis that is the fifth-largest city in the nation. He's had enough of surviving, and now enjoys life, living with his girlfriend, working as a handyman, teaching martial arts and playing in a punk rock band. But, when a friend falls victim to a contract killing and the police do nothing, Saunders decides to make some inquiries - then finds that he has passed the point of no return, and that the killer is now hunting him. He once again must fight for survival, and the fight will lead him to a truth more awful than anything he has ever known. The wide open spaces of Arizona turn dark and claustrophobic in this neo-noir tale of seething cruelty and rationalized evil. THE WRONG THING "A bloody little gem of contemporary noir…brutal blend of modern-day myth and crime fiction."- Barnes and NobleThey call him The Kid. He's a killer, a dark legend of the Southwest's urban badlands, "a child who terrifies adults." They speak of him in whispers in dive bars near closing time. Some claim to have met him. Others say he doesn't exist, a phantom blamed for every unsolved act of violence, a ghost who haunts every blood-splattered crime scene. But he is real. He's a young man with a love of cooking and reading, an abiding loneliness and an appetite for violence. He is a cipher, a projection of the dreams and nightmares of people ignored by the economic boom…and a modern-day outlaw in search of an ordinary life. Love brings him the chance at a new life in the form of Vanjii, a beautiful, damaged woman. But tr