Stray Dogs - Hardcover

Ridley, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345413458 ISBN 13: 9780345413451

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1997

Synopsis

On his way to Las Vegas to settle a gambling debt, drifter John Stewart is stranded when his car breaks down in the empty Nevada town of Sierra, until he meets the seductive Grace, who ensnares him in a web of betrayal, danger, despair, and murder. A first novel.

About this title

About the Author:

John Ridley wrote and directed the feature film, Cold Around the Heart. He lives in Los Angeles where he is currently working on his next novel.

From the Inside Flap:

he heat that makes you crazy. I don't know what it is, but it works that way for man and animal alike. I've seen some peculiar things on a hot day too. I've seen a scorpion sting itself to death. It just keeps drivin' its tail into its body again and again. A little killer killing itself. And what a man'll do on a hot day. A man could get his self killed just for rubbing shoulders with another. . . ."

A loner, a drifter, a gambler--John Stewart asks little of life. But when his '64 Mustang busts a radiator hose in the middle of the empty Nevada desert, he prays to God, Buddha, L. Ron. And rolls into the tiny town of Sierra. Where he finds . . . nothing. A gas station whose former owner is lying low in the cemetery. A strip of barren, dust-blown store fronts. A truck stop cafe with more flies than customers.

Stewart wants out. Sucker-punched in a rigged poker game, he's got to get to Vegas to settle a debt. Or else.

Then in walks Grace, a seductive knockout w

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0345413458
• ISBN 13: 9780345413451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 168