Cooper Daniels has come up with a sure
fire plan. Take the marijuana he and his buddy, Davis, has grown and processed,
stuff it in some furniture, load that furniture and a bunch of other assorted
junk into one of those container units, and ship it down to Texas. Let somebody
else do the high risk deed of driving the pot across state lines. Legalized pot
in Colorado is killing their ability to sell his illegal weed. The market is collapsing
around their ears and being the brains of the duo, it is up to Cooper to get
them out of their latest problem. A problem made massively worse thanks to a taskforce
in Chicago that busted the guy he was going to sell his latest thirty pounds of
high quality weed.
Things are changing and Cooper and Daniels
are struggling to keep up. The old network is going under thanks to the wave of
marijuana legalization sweeping the country. Cooper and Davis aren’t getting
the bucks they are used to which is killing their life style. A life style built
on concerts, parties, and getting blasted while staying at the best places and
having the time of their lives. It has been grand, but they are getting older
and things are changing in many ways.
In one last desperate attempt to get a
big pay day, Cooper reaches out to an old contact down in Teller County, Texas.
Elroy “Sancho” Watts is thrilled to hear from Cooper and is willing to work a
deal. Neither Cooper or Davis wants to go back home to their old Texas stomping
grounds, but the plan is to get in, do the deal, and get out of Texas as fast
as possible and for good reason.
One of the many things they don’t know
is that things have changed in a major way in Texas as well. One of those
changes is the involvement of a man known to one and all as Bobby Burnell. Known
to folks as “Bobby Burnout” for good reason the man is a human disaster zone. Involved
in the deal, he as well as Sancho and several other folks are under the
watchful eyes of local and state law enforcement. All of this and more means
trouble, often at the point of a gun, for all involved.
Published by Down & Out Books, Michael
Pool’s latest crime fiction feast, Texas Two-Step is a high octane
ride. Shifting through various characters it becomes clear as the read powers
towards a deadly confrontation that nearly everyone involved has dirty hands.
Some are just a little worse than others.
As he did in other reads, author
Michael Pool quickly pulls the reader in to a crime fiction tale populated by
complex characters doing their best in their own ways to get through that
brings far more trouble than one would expect on the surface when the decision
happens. Texas Two-Step is an
intense read that works on every level. Highly recommended.
Texas Two-Step
Michael Pool
Down & Out Books
2018
ISBN# 978-1-946502-56-8
Paperback (also available
in eBook format)
280 Pages
$16.95
Paperback review copy provided by Wiley Saichek of Saichek
Publicity for my use to read and review.
Kevin R. Tipple ©2018
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