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Yellow Medicine (2008)

by Anthony Neil Smith(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1932557709 (ISBN13: 9781932557701)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Bleak House Books

series

Billy Lafitte

review 1: Kicked out of the police in Mississippi in the wake of Katrina, Billy Lafitte signs on a deputy in a rural Minnesota backwater where his ex-wife’s brother is sheriff. Falling for a young woman named Drew who plays in a local rock band, he agrees to look into the affairs of her boyfriend who has run afoul of the local meth manufacturers by losing some of their goods. When he is contacted by two meth dealers looking to form an alliance, things go from bad to worse. The boyfriend goes missing along with the people he was shacking up with, and Drew's band disappears on the way to a gig. Heads start to roll literally as the crime syndicate takes its revenge by decapitating its hostages. Things spiral out of control and soon Billy is in the middle of tense standoff: terrorists... more using the profits from meth labs to stage attacks on one side and state and federal authorities on the other who think Billy has sold out to the terrorists for money. This book worked really well, the story of a bent cop looking for redemption and then falling into the same old pits and then deeper than he can imagine is a resonant one. Smith keeps the pace fast and furious with enough plot twists to keep the narrative from getting stale. I look forward to reading further books in this series.
review 2: I've known Neil for a long time and have been reading his works for as long, but this particular novel, the first in his Billy Lafite series (and hopefully not the last), kept me motivated during my 15 months deployed to the hell that is Iraq. His book gave me something to look forward to at the end of long days, weeks, and months. There were plenty books to read in the care packages mailed to us (god bless those wonderful people), but Yellow Medicine was a page turner that I returned to day after day. So this book will always hold a special place in my heart. less

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