Spine Break

At midnight Texas granite courthouses stand in solitary silence, except for the tolling of their clock towers. The bells' thick droning could easily drown out the cries from a small-town killer's victim. Small-town justice is always something to question, especially when your high school teacher is doing dope and deep in the dark is lurking sinister death. Anthony Vico is more than a pipe-smoking librarian. He rides an AJS 16M motorcycle from the European front. And he got through WWII in fist fight boxing bouts all over the Pacific. Returning to Texas on the eve of the 1950s, can he survive his hometown? Mitch Malory ain't no beautiful boy. His face has taken a right hook or three to the jaw. His character is taking a beating too. He's grieving the death of his recently deceased mother. Who cares if it's about to be Christmas in 1949? It's just a good excuse for going on another random burglary spree. Oh, the stuff folks do when they figure no one's watching, even murder! Anthony Vico and Mitch Malory confront a Christmas murder when they meet for the first time in this gripping action suspense thriller short story. Fireworks are going to fly when they go head-to-head busting knuckles with the deep-seated corruption of Sheriff Jake Jenkins!