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In these five hard-bitten tales, PI Hayden Fuller searches for a missing girl while tangling with a sex ring; mixes it up with N'oublie jamais, while dealing with a domestic abuse case; investigates his father's murder and tumbles onto a cult and a leader who wants to "dismantle the universe"; dukes it out with Nazis in Bannerville, Pop 1201, and their "triumph of redemption" featuring mechanical dragons; and stumbles through a demi-monde of underground filmmakers while busting up a sex trafficking ring. Fuller, with his fists and snub-nosed .38, unpacks a host of lies as each narrative builds to a shock ending. His is a pyrrhic journey, for in the dark, Fuller finds something more than night.
Grant Tracey
Grant Tracey is the author of nearly fifty short stories and four collections of fiction, including Final Stanzas, published by Twelve Winters Press in 2015. He teaches courses in creative writing and film at the University of Northern Iowa, and he has been the fiction editor of the North American Review for over fifteen years. He was the recipient of an Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence in 2013. In addition to his writing, editing and teaching, Grant has acted in more than twenty community theater productions. Cheap Amusements is his first novel.
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