Dead Man's Badge
by Robert E. Dunn
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Pub Date Feb 01 2018 | Archive Date Mar 30 2018
Description
When you dig your own grave it always ends up ragged and shallow.
Career criminal Longview Moody, on the run from killers, assumes his dead, twin brother's identity as the new Chief of Police of a Texas town that's being terrorized by a Mexican drug cartel. To pull off the deadly deception, Longview desperately works to become the kind of cop and man that his brother was. But when the two lives he’s living converge, he’s forced to embrace the violence within him to get justice...and vengeance.
PRAISE FOR ‘DEAD MAN’S BADGE”
“It's terrific. It's lean and smart and very good. I say, check it out.” Joe Lansdale
“Robert Dunn unloads both barrels – Dead Man’s Badge is a fast, furious shootout from beginning to end. This tale of corrupt cops, cartel killers, and one bad guy just trying to make good, lingers like gun smoke. Bloody, dark, and pistol-whip smart, it's Border noir at its best.” J. Todd Scott, author of THE FAR EMPTY
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 1230002003825 |
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Featured Reviews
Dave W, Reviewer
Dead Man's Badge is a full-bore violent nasty modern Southwestern noir that begins with the main character digging his own grave at gunpoint somewhere near Juarez and almost never lets up the frenetic pace. The initial action comes at you with no letup.
It's got a lot of classic ingredients like the criminal on the run from the drug cartel, the two half brothers, one a crook, the other a lawman, and both with daddy issues, the stranger riding into town with every hand turned against him, the mesmerizing vixen who has him in her crosshairs, and plenty of double crosses and betrayals.
The area on both sides of America's Southern border is an increasingly lawless void where corruption and feed breed. There's no sugar coating it here. It's nasty, raw, hardnosed, and quite a page turner. And it's filled with darkness, hopelessness, and despair.
Randy B, Reviewer
Wow! Wow! Wow! Revenge, The Mexican Cartel, crooked cops, corruption, betrayal, gun battles, murder, greed, good guys, bad guys, .....oh! And one HELL of a good story! Loved it! Quentin Tarantino wishes he had written this!
Gemma B, Reviewer
I was so, so impressed with this novel. I'd not read anything by the author before but you can be damn sure I'll be looking out for more of his work now.
The earlier part of the novel is excellent. Fast paced, keeps up the tempo and ends every chapter in a cliffhanger that has you gasping out loud. It loses that a little in the latter parts of the novel but I think it's only noticeable because of how high your expectations have been set. The remainder of the novel is definitely still an intense and interesting read.
I did have some trouble keeping the characters straight at one point. The male characters somewhat blended together for me and I had to reread parts to grasp who was affiliated with what organization. I sort of lost the wow factor of finding out someone wasn't who they claimed to be because I couldn't remember who they were thought to be affiliated with. The female characters had very distinct, memorable descriptions although I wish more had survived than did.
I really liked the author's style and the moments where he reminded a reader of what would typically happen next, in a movie cliche, only to go in another direction that was more true to life. The novel is definitely one I'd recommend to others that enjoy something fast paced with lots of shock reveals.
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