My good friend, John W. Davis, a Cold War counter-intelligence spook for the U.S. Army and author of two excellent collections of essays and articles on terrorism, America’s wars and Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, just published this revised review of The Fatal Saving Grace: An Ed Earl Burch Novel, my fifth hard-boiled Texas crime thriller featuring this battered but unsinkable PI and resurrected lawman.

Check it out:

“No one walks deserts without reason, and never without fear of snakes. Sinister, subtle, and strange, the worst snake is human, hidden from justice, hidden unseen under the prettiest rocks. Awaiting to strike at the worst possible moment. Ed Earl Burch, restored detective, appears again in another adventure of murder, dread, and redemption posted from searing hot and leather tough West Texas, The Fatal Saving Grace. Ed Earl confronts perhaps the most insidious creature who’s tried to put him in a pine box yet. Burch is caught again in two card monte, trust or betrayal? Now a lawman, Burch must resolve ‘What is worse, following the law and the serial killer gets away, or become the law?’ A witches’ stew boils a friend’s granddaughter and child in the mix, not to mention distrust, and newfound camaraderie. Are we all in this together, or must be walk the desert alone?”

As it happens, Monday is Launch Day for this instant classic, with the paperback and Kindle versions now live on Amazon.

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Saving-Grace-Hard-Boiled-Thriller/dp/0998329479

Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Saving-Grace-Hard-Boiled-Thriller-ebook/dp/B0FZXKHF83

You can also check out John’s books at: https://www.amazon.com/Rainy-Street-Stories-John-Davis/dp/1936800128