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Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vividly atmospheric thriller from acclaimed literary crime novelist Chris Offutt.

A literary master across genres, award-winning author Chris Offutt's latest book, Shifty's Boys, is a compelling, propulsive thriller that returns to Appalachia.

Mick Hardin is an Army CID officer home on leave, recovering from an IED attack and flirting with prescription painkillers, when a body is found in the center of town. It's Barney Kissick, the local heroin dealer, and the city police see it as an occupational hazard. But when Barney's mother, Shifty, asks Mick to take a look, it seems there's more to the killing than it seems. Mick should be rehabbing his leg, signing his divorce papers, and getting out of town--and most of all, staying out of the way of his sister Linda's reelection as Sheriff--but he keeps on looking, and suddenly he's getting shot at himself.

A dark, pacy crime novel about grief and revenge, and the surprises hidden below the surface, Shifty's Boys is a tour de force that confirms Chris Offutt's Mick Hardin as one of the most appealing new investigators in fiction.

À la fin de la guerre de Corée, Tucker, jeune vétéran de dix-huit ans, est de retour dans son Kentucky natal. En stop et à pied, il rentre chez lui à travers les collines, et la nuit noire des Appalaches apaise la violence de ses souvenirs. Sur son chemin, il croise Rhonda, quinze ans à peine, et la sauve des griffes de son oncle. Immédiatement amoureux, tous deux décident de se marier pour ne plus jamais se quitter. Tucker trouve un boulot auprès d’un trafiquant d’alcool de la région, et au cours des dix années qui suivent, malgré leur extrême précarité, les Tucker s’efforcent de construire un foyer heureux : leurs cinq enfants deviennent leur raison de vivre. Mais quand une enquête des services sociaux menace la famille, les réflexes de combattant de Tucker se réveillent. Acculé, il découvrira le prix à payer pour défendre les siens.

The classic Escapist character and his intriguing crack team of associates have been menacing dastardly villains and entertaining comic fans since 1940. This third volume collects issues five and six of the popular quarterly series.

Seven years ago, Chris Offutt made his literary debut with Kentucky Straight, a fiercely original collection that earned him not only critical praise but many prestigious awards.
The eight new stories in Out of the Woods mark Offutt's return to the form in which he first displayed his astonishing talent. Offutt, who "draws landscape and constructs dialogue with the eyes and ears of a native son" (The Miami Herald), is on strong home turf here, capturing those who have left the Kentucky hills and long to return. These are stories of gravediggers and drifters, gamblers and truck drivers a long way from home, tales that are so full of hard edges they can't help but tell some hard truths.

Kentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These riveting, often heartbreaking stories, take us through country that is unmapped. They are set in a nameless Appalachian community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occupation; where hunting is not a sport but a means of survival. These are stories of coal miners and backwoods medicine men, of gamblers and marijuana farmers, tales of real tragedy and unutterable strangeness that convey their sense of place so vividly that we feel its ground rise beneath our feet.

Offutt has received a James Michener Grant and a Kentucky Arts Council Award.