<p>Nick Valentine has problems. He’s a drunken ex-cop who lives in his shabby office, hangs out at strip clubs, and has only one real friend—Frank Sinatra. But he’s one of the best private investigators in St. Louis. So when an inept crew robs a credit union, only Valentine can figure out who made off with the millions.\nSometimes solving a crime takes a hard guy who’s not afraid to work outside the law, and Valentine scrambles through the underbelly of St. Louis looking for answers. With every law he breaks, every drink he takes, and every Oxycontin he snorts, Valentine lurches closer to finding the truth. Or floating facedown in the Missouri River.\nBrutally funny, wild, this no-holds-barred crime novel reads like Elmore Leonard on meth. Crazy and addictive, you’ll want more.</p>

The Howling Ages: A Novel

William Hastings

CONCORD PRESS

<p>In an age when much food and travel writing has become the flashy lifestyle musings of the rich, William Hastings has given us the earnest and energetic memoir of a man who begins his travels poor, and finishes with only a few bucks, but who along the way learns the pure, sensual, joy of cooking and eating. The Hard Way is the memoir of a world wanderer with an enormous sensual appetite, learning to make onion soup when all he has to his name is an onion, and it follows him through a hardscrabble existence in the Virgin Islands, eating out of dumpsters until natives show him how to cook coconut over an open fire. Then we re off to the Middle East where he learns the staunch process and tradition of making the perfect coffee. Here is an encounter with people, cultures, and a full sense of being alive. Hastings joins the tradition of the wanderers of literature, such as Blaise Cendrars, Laurie Lee, and Eric Newby.</p>

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The Howling Ages: A Novel

The Hard Way