Hogdoggin' : Anthony Neil Smith (Fahrenheit Pocket Noir)

Hogdoggin' - the 2nd book in Anthony Neil Smith's Lafitte Series is the latest book to be published by Fahrenheit Pocket Noir (though if we're honest you're gonna need quite a big pocket as this little beauty runs to over 500 pages).

Billy Lafitte thought he could leave the chaos behind. Once a dirty cop, then a biker gang enforcer, Lafitte has been many things, but a man who quits isn’t one of them. Now he’s wanted by the FBI, hunted by outlaw bikers, and betrayed by the only people he thought he could trust.

Back in Minnesota, his family’s in danger. Down south, federal agents are tightening the noose and in-between are backroads littered with meth labs, revenge plots, and bodies that just won’t stay buried. Lafitte doesn’t want redemption. He doesn’t believe in second chances. He just wants to keep riding, keep fighting, and maybe, if he’s lucky, settle the score with the people who ruined his life.

Raw, violent, and darkly funny, Hogdoggin’  is Anthony Neil Smith at his fiercest.

Perfect for fans of noir, outlaw crime, and anti-heroes too mean to die, this sequel to Yellow Medicine is a full-throttle plunge into loyalty, betrayal, and blood-soaked survival.

Praise for Anthony Neil Smith

“On my list of the most original voices in crime fiction today, Anthony Neil Smith easily makes it into the top five. YELLOW MEDICINE is a terrific read, a crime noir bullet-train ride on unsafe tracks.”—Scott Wolven, author of Controlled Burn.

“YELLOW MEDICINE gets its hooks into you from its first turbulent pages. It is the novel's complicated, captivating hero, Deputy Billy Lafitte, who holds you from beginning to end. He’s a liar, a cheat and a pretty bad guy, but so richly rendered that, before you know it, you find yourself following him through the darkest of terrains, and eagerly.”—Megan Abbott, author of the Edgar-nominated Queenpin

“YELLOW MEDICINE starts with one of the most memorable and engaging anti-heroes in recent memory. Mix in bent cops, a psychobilly band called Elvis Antichrist, meth cookers in the Minnesota sticks, and a truly nasty pack of wannabe jihadists. Add a liberal helping of guns, knives and explosives. You're gonna love it.”—J.D. Rhoades, author of A Good Day in Hell and Safe and Sound.

“Anthony Neil Smith has taken the stark, freezing landscape of rural Minnesota and brought it to life with an injection of Louisiana Hot Sauce in the form of Deputy Billy Lafitte. A violent, bawdy, thrilling, edgy, gut-churning masterpiece.”—Victor Gischler, author of Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse, Pistol Poets, and the Edgar-nominated Gun Monkeys.

“Smith deserves credit for taking a risk by creating a character like Lafitte, whose private code of honor-if any-is far more obscure than an antihero like Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.”—Publishers Weekly

“Smith has a powerful voice and delivers quite a romp, offering along the way a sort of Tony Hillerman glimpse into a part of the country that is not often the subject of crime fiction.”—Steve Glassman, Booklist

Fahrenheit Pocket Noir

Hogdoggin is part of our new Fahrenheit Pocket Noir series - you can find out more here...