Razorblade Tears

Set in Virginia, this is the story of Ike and Buddy Lee, the mourning fathers of married couple, their sons, who have been viciously murdered, and the police investigation is failing. Ike, if he was cast in a movie would be played by Issac Hayes or maybe Ving Rhames, Buddy Lee would be played by Sam Eliot (as noted twice in the book’s dialog) The boys are both very old school: homophobic ex-gang member Ike, and racist, ex-moonshiner Buddy Lee. They have an odd-couple partnership, where they must both overcome their atavistic impulses to succeed in the investigation of their son’s murders. Of course the murderers are members of a bike gang… this book is just over 300 pages and it has a happy (ish - I mean you know from the jump that Buddy Lee must die) ending.

The prose is smooth and SHARP not unlike (maybe) moonshine…

Buddy Lee leaned his chair back on two legs before letting it rest on all four again. He rubbed his face with his left hand. The wound on his right hand was pulsating under its bandage. He took a sip from a mason jar that had a nebulous form floating near the bottom. Once upon a time it had been a half of a peach. He’d found the jar in his closet hidden behind his winter clothes. Like a squirrel and his nuts, Buddy Lee sometimes forgot where he kept his emergency rations.

This super fast paced thriller is type of book that could be a screenplay simply by mechanically reformatting the document and, as mentioned earlier, I have ideas for the casting.