Yellow Medicine : Anthony Neil Smith (Fahrenheit Pocket Noir)
Welcome to Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota—a frozen wasteland where the meth is pure, the music is loud, and the lawman enforcing order is barely holding it together.
Deputy Billy Lafitte used to be a cop on the Gulf Coast. That was before Hurricane Katrina washed away his badge, his family, and his reputation. Working now as a small-town deputy, he's bent the rules enough to make himself useful—and dangerous—to just about everyone.
When Drew, the bassist of local psychobilly band Elvis Antichrist, asks Lafitte for help with her meth-dealing boyfriend, things spiral fast. Trouble kicks the door in and Lafitte finds himself caught between the band, a meth ring, and a homegrown terrorist cell. When the FBI comes knocking, they don’t want justice—they want someone to blame. And Lafitte is the perfect fall guy.
Yellow Medicine is a breakneck noir thrill ride with a hard-boiled heart and a twisted soul. From sleazy bars to backwoods terror camps, it barrels toward a showdown where survival means crossing every line.
Dirty. Dark & Addictive. Welcome to the beginning of the Billy Lafitte saga.
Praise for Yellow Medicine
“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
Yellow Medicine is part of our new Fahrenheit Pocket Noir series the next 3 books in the Lafitte Series will be appearing over the coming weeks - you can find out more here...
