One for Hell - Softcover

Davis, Jada M.

 
9781933586304: One for Hell
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1933586303 ISBN 13: 9781933586304
Publisher: Stark House Press, 2010

Synopsis

When Willa Ree emerges from the boxcar, he is broke and ready for a fresh start. And Breton looks to be a town full of fresh suckers. Ben Halliday is not one of those suckers, or so he thinks. One of the town leaders, he needs a new cop with adjustable morals. Ree is the perfect fit. Unfortunately, Ree is even less subtle than Halliday had hoped. Because Ree has plans of his own. Now that he’s a cop, he intends to steal every dollar he can lay his hands on, and seduce any woman he wants. This Texas oil town is ripe for the picking on all accounts. It’s Willa Ree’s town now, and nothing that Halliday—or anyone—can do will stop him.

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About the Author

Born in 1919 to bitter poverty on a West Texas farm, Jada Davis was a hired laborer in cotton fields as a child. He was a voracious reader when he could escape his farm chores, and found that he could make extra money as a teenager by writing short pieces for magazines. After serving in the last true cavalry division of the U.S. Army in the 1930s, he was forced by tuberculosis to sit out the Second World War. Davis earned a degree at the University of Texas at Austin, and then went on to edit several West Texas newspapers. Around that time, he authored One for Hell. Davis later joined the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, where he rose up the ranks to become a senior PR executive. He died in 1996.

From the Back Cover

One for Hell was one of only two novels published by Jada M. Davis in his lifetime, but as James Reasoner says, it's "a lost classic that actually lives up to its reputation as one of the finest hardboiled crime novels ever written."

From the Inside Flap

When Willa Ree emerges from the boxcar, he is broke and ready for a fresh start. And Breton looks to be a town full of fresh suckers. Ben Halliday is not one of those suckers, or so he thinks. One of the town leaders, he needs a new cop with adjustable morals. Ree is the perfect fit. Unfortunately, Ree is even less subtle than Halliday had hoped. Because Ree has plans of his own. Now that he s a cop, he intends to steal every dollar he can lay his hands on, and seduce any woman he wants. This Texas oil town is ripe for the picking on all accounts. It s Willa Ree s town now, and nothing that Halliday or anyone--can do will stop him.

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Publisher
Stark House Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1933586303
ISBN 13 
9781933586304
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208