A hypnotic, brutal, and unstoppable coming-of-age story echoing from within the aftershocks set off by the American Indian boarding schools of generations past, fanned by the flames of nearly fifteen years of service in the Armed Forces, exposing a series of inescapable prisons and the invisible scars of attempted erasure. When he learns his father is dying, David Tromblay ponders what will become of the monster's legacy and picks up a pen to set the story straight. In sharp and unflinching prose, he recounts his childhood bouncing between his father, who wrestles with anger, alcoholism, and a traumatic brain injury; his grandmother, who survived Indian boarding schools but mistook the corporal punishment she endured for proper child-rearing; and his mother, a part-time waitress, dancer, and locksmith, who hides from David's father in church basements and the folded-down back seat of her car until winter forces her to abandon her son on his grandmother's doorstep. For twelve years, he is beaten, burned, humiliated, locked in closets, lied to, molested, seen and not heard, until his talent for brutal violence meets and exceeds his father's, granting him an escape. Years later, David confronts the compounded traumas of his childhood, searching for the domino that fell and forced his family into the cycle of brutality and denial of their own identity.

As You Were

Biographies & Memoirs

Tromblay, David

Community & Culture

Dzanc Books

The not-too-distant future. The global population reaches ten billion, leaving the planet at its breaking point. The population is being thinned; its people, their professions, and their health are reclassified: Essential or Nonessential. Jonathan Shaddox works as a medical courier for a healthcare giant, navigating the crumbling remains of what had been great American cities.This was once a work of fiction.

The Essentials

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Whiskey Tit

After Sangre Road comes to a dead-end for the love of his life along with a one-ton buffalo and his prized Pontiac Sunbird, one time Army Military Police officer turned bounty hunter Moses Kincaid, hailing from the Ho-Chunk Nation, limps and thumbs his way into the oil capital of the world where he means to set up shop for himself but embarrassingly finds himself licking his wounds and working on a motel tan envied by no one until hunger lures him back out into the living world where he rolls the dice and comes up under the employ of old west obsessed Black bail bondsman Arlo Bice, who fancies himself the Bass Reeves of the here and now, charged with taming the Indian Territory town of Tulsa.\nIn lieu of a resume, Moses takes to breaking and entering into a McMansion and relieving an absentminded man of his Dodge Viper, used for collateral, to prove his salt but ends up in a rally race with Mopar's meanest muscle car on the road to date and a Mary Kay Caddy. Unbeknownst to him, Moses must again battle the Basterd's motorcycle gang in the middle of Nowhere, Oklahoma, where pro-midget wrestler and manslaughterer, Lil Hank, is reportedly on the lamb after walking away from the Big Mac rec yards a year earlier.\nIt's feast or famine from there on out, making Moses Kincaid a bit too bold and big for his britches in the big city, meaning: Moses must stand toe-to-toe with the consequences of his actions after being found out by state police after bringing in a bounty dead rather than alive. They bait him with an offer too good to say "no" to, which gets him to smash through the looking glass and grab the rodeo bull by the horns behind the tall walls of the big house where he learns freedom really is just another word for nothing left to lose.\nSmash the dash, crank the knob, and buckle up!\nEarly Praise for Money the Hard Way 
“David Tromblay has one of the most original voices in crime fiction – wild, wicked, and always surprising. MONEY THE HARD WAY is a barnburner of a novel, a rush of unforgettable characters, rich detail, and unsparing truth.” 
—Lou Berney, author Gunshot Straight 
“With a voice and style all his own, Moses Kincaid leads the reader, by the scruff of the shirt, through his rough and tumble ride from bounty hunting into the Dantean prison system. He doesn’t meet a lot of nice people along the way, but it sure is entertaining to watch fall off the page.” 
—Paul Tremblay, author of the Pallbearers Club 
“This is one wild ride. You think it’ll go left, and it goes right. You think it’ll go up and it goes sideways. David Tromblay is a force and so is his madman hero, Moses Kincaid.” 
—Willy Vlautin, author of The Night Always Comes 
“A welcome addition to the burgeoning crime literature of Oklahoma. Moses Kincaid is the toughest guy in Tulsa.” 
—Chris Offutt, author of The Killing Hills 
“David Tromblay’s writing is like Jim Thompson hijacked a Coen Bros script.” 
—Mark Westmoreland, author of A Violent Gospel

Money the Hard Way

Literature & Fiction

United States

Shotgun Honey Books

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