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One Too Many Blows To The Head


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Kansas City, 1939. In a world of fixed fights and mob influence Ray Ward and his brother Rex are two of the only clean fighters in town. With Ray in the corner and Rex in the ring they are headed for the big time. Until that fateful night. Now Ray has a score to settle using a lifetime of lessons in how to fight back. Dean Fokoli is a detective with a new partner, an alcoholic wife and a guilty conscience. At least the boxer on the radio who just got beat to a pulp won't end up in his homicide file. But when the dregs of the crooked fight world start turning up dead, Fokoli is on the hunt for the killer. The chase will take him to the underbelly of the Kansas City night and hopefully keep him one step ahead of his past. A razor-edged story of revenge, redemption and what happens when you confront the ghosts of the past. "One Too Many Blows to the Head feels like a long-lost pulp you find in a favorite bookstore. A delicious mix of classic hardboiled grit and the heart-heavy world of film noir, it's a one-sitting read that sends you back to a lost time of fight halls, Chicago boys and last chances." -Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me and Queenpin "A powerful tale of vengeance, rife with pounding action and colorful, complex characters. One Too Many Blows To The Head is a first round knock-out!" - Stephen Jay Schwartz, LA Times best selling author of Boulevard and Beat "The prose is hardboiled and lean, and there's plenty of violence. There's a surprise or two along the way, and you'll want to know what happens to Fokoli and Ray. They're deeply flawed, but Beetner and Kohl keep them human, which is quite an accomplishment when you consider the circumstances." - Bill Crider, author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series "The writing is crisp, the characters finely drawn. Ray's motivation to avenge his brother's death, murder really, may seem to be simple, but in actuality is deeply complex. One Too Many Blows To the Head is quite remarkable in how it takes a relatively simple story and develops an intricate, compelling tale of two men on a mission to identify who killed Rex Ward . . . but also on a search for their own." -Mysterious Reviews (FOUR STARS) "Boxing and noir once went hand in glove, but you don't see many boxing novels anymore, and that's a shame. Here's one that dredges up all the blood and spit and sweat and money of the fight game, and wraps it around a tough noir storyline full of revenge and dark secrets. Kohl and Beetner get it exactly right." - Steve Brewer, author of the Bubba Mabry series "One Too Many Blows to the Head is a novel set in the fight world of Kansas City 1939 and it's everything you love about classic film noir only bound and printed." - Hardboiled Wonderland
About the Author: About the Authors JB Kohl and Eric Beetner have written four novels together and have still never met in person. Weird, they know it. JB Kohl is the author of The Deputy's Widow (2008) which Eric read an admired. When she read a short story of Eric's she decided to pester him until he agreed to collaborate on something. Resistance was futile. And so, One Too Many Blows To The Head and its sequel, Borrowed Trouble were created. JB continues to work on her own novels in addition to working as a physician assistant in the very flattest part of the midwest. Rumors of her belly dancing have not been confirmed. Eric Beetner is author of several novels and novellas as well as over 60 published short stories. His books include The Devil Doesn't Want Me, The Year I Died Seven Times, Criminal Economics, Dig Two Graves, White Hot Pistol, Blood On Their Hands, Stripper Pole At The End Of The World. He has also written two novellas in the popular Fightcard series of boxing pulps under the name Jack Tunney - Split Decision and A Mouth Full Of Blood. And some of his finest work remains unpublished, waiting to be released on the world. For more visit ericbeetner.blogspot.com JB and Eric's latest collaboration, Over Their Heads, will be released soon. It is a contemporary crime novel filled with over the top action and violence. Exactly the kind of book Ray Ward and Dean Fokoli would read in a ten cent paperback.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781499236514
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: Ray & Fokoli
  • Weight: 354 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1499236514
  • Publisher Date: 25 Apr 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Width: 127 mm


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