Duke City Desperado: A Lawbreakers Thriller

For fans of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul comes Max Austin€s latest fast-paced, rollicking Lawbreakers Thriller, a short novel of criminals and lovers, malcontents and madmen€"all within the treacherous city limits of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
 
Under a sky full of stars, Dylan James lies sleeping on the roof of a pueblo-style house. He€s a fugitive, and everyone in Albuquerque seems to be looking for him. A murderous Mafia prince wants to kill him. Two FBI agents want to cuff him. A Goth girl wants to make love to him. And a fierce, sexy Chicana just wants to clean up the mess Dylan made.
 
The trouble started with a drug-addled career criminal named Doc and a bank robbery staged with a garage door opener. Then it all goes off the rails after a little misunderstanding with Dylan€s ex-girlfriend and her jealous, gun-toting new beau.
 
When the sun comes up, this sleepy, scrawny desperado is going to show the world what he€s made of€"all for a one-in-a-million shot at walking out of Duke City alive.

Advance praise for Duke City Desperado
 
€œDuke City Desperado is more fun than a barrel of heavily medicated monkeys. The crime caper novel is not dead, but in the capable hands of Max Austin it takes on a whole new twist. Two inept criminals equal one good time for the reader.€€"Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Day Shift and the novels that inspired True Blood

€œDuke City Desperado is a page-burner of tart dialogue and breakneck pacing. In lesser hands, this twisty plot could have gone off the rails, but it works because author Max Austin knows it€s all about simple, human relationships, especially the off-kilter relationship at the core of the story.€€"Bill Fitzhugh, Lefty Award€“winning author of The Exterminators
 
€œWith Duke City Desperado, Max Austin again proves to be grand master of the laugh-out-loud noir crime novel. Doc Burnett (€œBank robbery ain€t a matter of brains.€) and his hapless disciple, Dylan, lead readers on a madcap spree that transforms ineptitude into a survival skill.€€"Charlie Price, Edgar Award€“winning author of Dead Girl Moon