Odd, creepy, funny, The Black Lagoon meets the Six Gun universe.
Meanwhile, all Charlie Fish wants is to return to his home at sea..
With the circus charlatans in pursuit, ominous winds are picking up from an impending hurricane.
When Nellie taps into the peril of the gentle Charlie Fish, Floyd\'s makeshift family expands to include the lost, two-legged amphibian.
They are struggling to capture a fish-man in order to put him on cruel display.
Along the way home, Floyd, Nellie, and Hank encounter a dubious traveling salesman, Professor Finn, and his henchman, Kentucky Jim.
Hank, her impulsive younger brother, just wants to break out his outsized revolver.
Nellie, who is descended from a long line of witches, has visions from other people\'s minds.
He arrives for his father\'s funeral, but he is returning to Galveston, Texas, with two orphaned siblings he has rescued.
As always, Floyd Betts rides into town alone.
With his vivid imagery, evocative storytelling, and uncanny wit, Rountree enters the fine tradition of Texan storytellers, wading into True Grit by way of The Shape of Water .
Josh Rountree\'s strikingly original debut novel ranges effortlessly between the Gothic, pulp, literary, Western, and comedic. history--is on its way.
But the Great Storm--the worst natural disaster in U.
S.
Meanwhile, they are pursued by bounty hunters determined to profit from the spectacle of Charlie.
Lansdale, Edgar Award-winning author of the Hap and Leonard series As an unlikely found-family flees toward Galveston, a psychic young girl bonds with Charlie Fish, an enigmatic gill-man. --Joe R.
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Odd, creepy, funny, The Black Lagoon meets the Six Gun universe
