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An author to watch out for." --Regular Guy Reading Noir.
His whiskey-soaked prose can at times be as slick as a man slinging snake-oil, and other times as brutal as a baseball bat to the head." --Eryk Pruitt, author of Hashtag and Dirtbags "Phillips\' writing is so multi-layered and deep...
Countdown reads like an homage to Elmore Leonard from one of the hottest new voices on the crime fiction scene." --Anthony Neil Smith, author of Yellow Medicine and All the Young Warriors Praise for the Books by Matt Phillips "Matt Phillips speaks fluently the language of the dispossessed...
Praise for COUNTDOWN: "A slab of rare pulp, served nice and bloody.
From acclaimed pulp writer Matt Phillips, Countdown is a head-spinning hit of Southern California\'s lucrative and not-quite-regulated marijuana industry.
In this industry, no matter how much money there is for the taking--and no matter who gets it--there\'s always somebody counting backwards...to zero.
But that\'s exactly what they get.
With their guns and guts, Glanson and Echo don\'t expect much trouble from a mean son-of-a-gun like La Don Charles.
Except this time, everybody\'s high.
It\'s the wild, wild west.
Ex-soldiers Glanson and Echo target the cash--they start a ripoff business.
La Don and Jessie--two hustlers who make selling primo weed a regular gig--hire a private security detail to move and hold their money.
Keep it around, and you\'ll get robbed.
Bank it, and the Feds will ask questions.
But the money you make off it--there\'s the rub.
Eat it.
Smoke it.
Sell it.
Grow it.
Weed is legal.
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