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Synopsis
In 1888 in Victoria, Texas, for a simple job, a Chicago private eye gets caught up in much darker affairs and ends up in the poker game to end all poker games.
Synopsis
In 1888 in Victoria, Texas, for a simple job, a Chicago private eye gets caught up in the poker game to end all poker games.
In 1888 Shannon, a Chicago private detective, goes home to Texas for a
wedding and is asked by Galveston's new rabbi to locate swindlers,
claiming to be seeking money for a future colony of Romanian Jewish
refugees, and a man named Silverberg who has disappeared in Texas along
with them.
Though this appears to be a simple missing person/ land swindle job,
Shannon quickly finds himself in stranger territory. His investigations
lead him toward a demonic white-haired gambler, monstrous sand dune
totems, and a group of skull-headed poker players trapped in an endless
loop of cards and alcohol, who may be his only means to survive the
business.
Synopsis
Cover art by Jon Langford of The Mekons
An eldritch Western noir
Author has 2 books out in 2021 building up to this novel in 2022